Observations on the Treatment 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...

A Case of Ovarian Dropsy

Some Observations on the Value of Novasurol in Cardiac Dropsy

Case No. 1.?The patient is a lady aged 30. She was anaemic during her pregnancy and gave birth to a child in August 1927. A fortnight after delivery oedema started in the feet and gradually increased, affecting the lower and upper limbs. I was called in to see the case on 14th September, when I noticed extensive dropsy of the body, the face, hands and legs being enormously swollen and tense. Th...

Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706)

Dr. Saul Jarcho's several papers on the history of hydrothorax, culminating in the present translation of an authoritative eighteenth-entury 'review article', effectively dispel the idea obtainable from some modem reference works that the history of hydrothorax begins with the introduction of auscultation and percussion. Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest was published in Breslau in ...

Treatment of Epidemic Dropsy

areas by La] et al. (1937) and Chopra et al. (1939). There is little to doubt that adulterated mustard oil is primarily responsible for the large outbreaks of epidemic dropsy. More recently S. N. Sarkar (1948) has isolated the toxic alkaloid, sanguinerine, from argemone oil and shown its capillary dilating and other deleterious properties in animals. Bailey, Robinson and Staunton (1950) have la...