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She suffered from gout and dropsy for many years, though her death in 1619 was sudden.
Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
Disease manifestations, such as fever, dropsy, diarrhea, or cyanosis, were used as names of diseases.
Cures using herbs for diseases such as fever, jaundice, dropsy and leprosy are enumerated.
These included abortion, asthma, dropsy, sterility, cancer, dysmenorrhea, melancholy, empyema, worms, and jaundice to name only a few.
Hellebore Known as Christmas rose, a poisonous plant used as a purgative, in the treatment of dropsy and as an abortifacient.
The leaves are bitter and are used as a remedy for ophthalmia, ulcers, dropsy, cholera and beriberi associated with a weakness of the heart.
Mediaeval monks were aware of the benefits of salt mud and concentrated sea water and used them to treat rheumatism, dropsy and obesity.
From such examination, physicians considered that they could identify problems ranging from jaundice to dropsy, diphtheria, pregnancy, and anxiety.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, physicians prescribed garlic for a variety of ailments, including dropsy and phthisis, a form of tuberculosis.
We discovered two cases of cholera, one of TB, one of the dreaded lurgy while another was afflicted with a dropsy so massive we had no choice but to put him to sleep.
To explain Sophia's increasing size and necessary absence away from the family, the king was told that she was bloated due to dropsy and had to be sent away to recover.
Salines and other hydragogs are especially indicated when intestinal secretion is deficient and when the blood is overladen with toxic substances and dropsy is present somewhere in the body.
About a year ago, edible mustard oil laced with a cheap chemical substance became a public health issue when it was revealed that it led to development of dropsy.
Certain illnesses, such as dropsy, leprosy, and rheumatism, were said to be caused by Tlaloc and his fellow deities.
After that, despite my best efforts, Hernandez succumbed to dropsy and Eduardo developed terrible fungus which consumed his fins and turned his beautiful blue body brown.
The story in Luke 13:10-17 is probably paired with Luke 14:1-6, the healing of a man with dropsy, also on the sabbath.
When she died of dropsy, Wordsworth and Walter Savage Landor composed memorial verses in her honor.
If the World Health Organization has its way, celebrity through nosology — the classification of diseases — may soon go the way of consumption, dropsy, and other outdated diagnoses.
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In the case of the mesentery, such a mode of treating dropsy would speedily destroy the patient.
As a diuretic and attenuant in dropsy, or as an expectorant in chronic coughs.
This view is confirmed if ascites has appeared and increased out of proportion to the general dropsy.
The briony, which bears in its root a mark significative of a dropsical mans feet, was adopted as a cure for dropsy.
A moderate degree of cachectic dropsy is not very infrequent in the late stages of gastric ulcer.
But in cirrhotic dropsy this becomes more striking than in any other affection.
The removal of a large circular piece of the cyst in ovarian dropsy, when the sac itself cannot be extirpated.
And from dropsy to the deprivation of life into which your folly will bring you.
The extirpation of the ovarian cyst in scirrhus, combined with dropsy, or in simple dropsy.
This presently relieved the dysuria, and soon removed the dropsy, without any disturbance to his system.
This however is not the case in respect to the dropsy of the ovarium, or in the hydrocele.
If this disease is not attended to at an early period, its usual termination is in hydrothorax, or dropsy of the chest.
Again, the other valet had long been dropsical, and the valet who died in 1687 died of dropsy.
It is applicable in cardiac dropsy as well as in hepatic cases.
In it was a good-natured-looking old woman with a dropsy, or an asthma, or perhaps both.
These were mostly cases of dropsy from cirrhosis of the liver.
He lived until August 1782, and without any return of the dropsy.
Jaundice, dropsy, and great hardness in the region of the liver.
Such an accumulation is known as ascites, or dropsy of the abdomen.
Monsieur le Baron Flamet de la Billardiere died this morning of dropsy, caused by heart disease.
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