The cedar berry is used in a popular remedy for dropsy, which is claimed by some to be highly efficacious. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
When the balance between exhalation and absorption is destroyed, by either or both of these means, a dropsy will be the consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
The only information I could find last night for a possible cause was "dropsy" which is basically fish cancer. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
Those dogs are going to have SO much fun when the baby learns how to play the "dropsy" game with her food and toys. From Wordnik.com. [Big Dogs - Big Bones] Reference
Edema was formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
In this kind of dropsy I suspect the digitalis has less or no effect; as it particularly increases the absorption from the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
It may be distended with liquid in some cases of dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
This treatment likewise keeps off dropsy and its dangers. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
His mother was of feeble constitution and was afflicted with dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
The "noose of Varuṇa" will come to mean merely the disease of dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference
Abdominal and ovarian dropsy as influencing the position of the viscera. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
On that day he was attacked with dropsy and hæmorrhage, and the Court of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Deacon Lardner was the fat inhabitant of the town, and ill of the dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
The breath is markedly short and there is often dropsy of the limbs and feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Its importance we saw lately in the case of a child greatly swollen in dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Situated away from the point of origin or attachment. dropsy (dropsical) (edema). From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The patient in this case was afflicted with dropsy, and some affection of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
Jaundice, and dropsy of the belly and limbs, and finally of every cavity in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
I never observed a case of dropsy, or of neuralgia, after a course of water-treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
The eyelids, ankles, legs, and lower part of the belly are apt to show the dropsy most. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
In Bright's disease of the kidneys, where dropsy is present, it is likewise given with benefit. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
It is a valuable agent in many cases of heart disease, particularly when associated with dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
This powder was used externally, and also given internally in cases of dropsy and other diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Ovarian dropsy is distinguished from ascites by the particular form and situation of the swelling. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
This applied all over the abdomen, in case of abdominal dropsy, will have a most beneficial result. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
He suffered from consumption and finally dropsy, which made its appearance about six months before his death. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
If this disease is not attended to at an early period, its usual termination is in hydrothorax, or dropsy of the chest. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The same observation applies to the not unfrequent complication with organic disease of the spleen and consequent dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
She was not quite the "hogshead" the landlord declared her to be, but she was one of the worst cases of dropsy I had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
Thress was widely advertised as a victim of dropsy, who, after a complete fast of more than a month, was restored to sound health. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
James served, subsequently, in India and in the Mediterranean, where he contracted a dropsy, the result of an affection of the liver. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
One of these sailors died of dropsy while in my service; and, as I write, the memory of his death flashes across my mind so vividly, that. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
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