Medical Histories and Reflections ...W. Eyres, 1792 - Medicine "A selection of cases and observations, chiefly drawn from ... [the author's] practice at the Manchester Infirmary." - Preface. |
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... these pages , it is with fingular pleasure that I em- brace this opportunity of acknow- ledging myself , DEAR SIR , MANCHESTER , Your moft obliged , and most obedient fervant , Monley - Street , April 30 , 1792 . THE AUTHOR . THE ...
... these pages , it is with fingular pleasure that I em- brace this opportunity of acknow- ledging myself , DEAR SIR , MANCHESTER , Your moft obliged , and most obedient fervant , Monley - Street , April 30 , 1792 . THE AUTHOR . THE ...
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... these cases , I hope it is chiefly owing to the fingularity of the complaint described , or to the neceffity of elucidating a particular train of symptoms in a minute manner . would would do juftice to his patients , to keep a vi PREFACE .
... these cases , I hope it is chiefly owing to the fingularity of the complaint described , or to the neceffity of elucidating a particular train of symptoms in a minute manner . would would do juftice to his patients , to keep a vi PREFACE .
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... these cases , two were anafarcous ; feven were in- ftances of afcites , two of hydrothorax ; the reft were complicated , and in al- moft all the fatal inftances , there was water in the cheft . I have given this medicine in fome other ...
... these cases , two were anafarcous ; feven were in- ftances of afcites , two of hydrothorax ; the reft were complicated , and in al- moft all the fatal inftances , there was water in the cheft . I have given this medicine in fome other ...
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... method , fix were cured , two died , and two are convalefcent . Of these , one was a diftinct cafe of hydrothorax in which all the fymp- G 4 toms toms were removed , and the patient continued well nearly REMEDIES OF DROPSY . 87.
... method , fix were cured , two died , and two are convalefcent . Of these , one was a diftinct cafe of hydrothorax in which all the fymp- G 4 toms toms were removed , and the patient continued well nearly REMEDIES OF DROPSY . 87.
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... . Ba- cher's affertion , they evidently weaken the patient , however cautiously given . . Whenever they produce a dif- charge of water , they reduce the fwell- ings . These two effects , as I fhall foon ings . REMEDIES OF DROPSY . 91.
... . Ba- cher's affertion , they evidently weaken the patient , however cautiously given . . Whenever they produce a dif- charge of water , they reduce the fwell- ings . These two effects , as I fhall foon ings . REMEDIES OF DROPSY . 91.
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