Clinical Report on Dropsies

Dropsy appears to be a disease of frequent occurrence in Dublin, and the greater number of those affected with such complaints resort to Steevens' Hospital; in the chronic wards of which, an excellent opportunity is offered for investigating a disease, to the pathology of which little has been added until within these very few years. It is unfortunate, indeed, that medical writers, in general, publish only the successful cases which they meet with?such, for instance, as correspond with their theories, or suit their practical views ; whereas, it is only from the experience of a great number, and from an impartial account of all, the fatal as well as the successful cases, that any thing decisive can be collected.