Syphilis, Chyliform Ascites, Dropsy and Albuminuria

Chyliform (cholesterol) pleural effusion.

Chyliform pleural effusions are a little known occurrence only sparingly reported in the literature. At the lung department in Uppsala, Sweden, 11 cases have been seen the last few years. Typically, the exudate develops in a long-standing pleural thickening resulting from therapeutic pneumothorax many years earlier. The exudate contains a high level of cholesterol, probably breakdown products f...

Glaucoma and Epidemic Dropsy

A Case of Chyliform Sputum

I HE case about to be described is worthy of record for two reasonis, first because the sputum rarely presents the appearances of chvle, and second because it is Inot generally realizecd how difficult it is to prove by chemical analysis that a milky flui(d owes its turbidity to chNvle. This patient wsas in the Royal Victoria Hospital undler the care of Professor Thonmsoni, to xhonm the writer i...

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 ...