CURE OF OVARIAN DROPSY.

A Case of Ovarian Dropsy

On a Case of Ovarian Dropsy

after death was Miss M. O . Although of respectable parentage, she became dissolute in her habits, and for many years led a profligate life ; but, having become legally insane, she was placed, in 1856, being then in her thirty-eighth year, in Bethnall House Asylum, London, where she was under my care whilst medical officer in that institution. She was very violent, noisy, and obscene, intractab...

Epidemic Dropsy

It would prolong tliia already lengthy paper unduly were I to enter on a discussion of that protean malady, beri-beri, with the literature of which I have pretty fully acquainted myself, or to refer to other epidemics of dropsy which have been described as prevailing in Brazil and elsewhere. I beliSve that the term beri-beri has been applied to a number of different diseased conditions, and tha...

Epidemic Dropsy

of articles on ' Epidemic Dropsy '??the burning question of the day?even in the remotest villages. The treatment indicated is tincture ephedra vulgaris for the heart, which is analogous to the action of adrenalin and so will accelerate the heart. What should be done in the following case of epidemic dropsy? (1) Patient, aged 7 years; history of beri-beri? three months. (2) Sudden dilatation of ...

Epidemic Dropsy