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Synonyms for dropsy

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Pullet, "she'd another complaint ever so many years before she had the dropsy, and the doctors couldn't make out what it was.
"Nay, nay," cried Alleyne, "this was a holy man who had journeyed to Jerusalem, and acquired a dropsy by running from the house of Pilate to the Mount of Olives,"
The plant is traditionally used for cough, leprosy, dropsy, fever, dysmenorrheal, hypertension, cardiac disorders, asthma, epilepsy and depression (Singh et al., 1979; Vaidyaratnam, 1994; Khan et al., 2019).
Gerrard recommended it for dropsy and used it to create his celebrated Worm Treacle' -- not to taken lightly.
In 1761, Auenbrugger described under the twelve observations of dropsy of the chest in his aforementioned book, subheading XLVI, "Dropsy of the Pericardium," his observation of two signs that bear his namesake:
Kimberly Nagy will be presenting "Dropsy, Quinsy, or Consumption: Just Exactly What Did My Ancestor Have?" Have you even wondered what some of the medical terms found on old documents really mean?
Again a belief that holly offered protection from asthma, dropsy, gout, rheumatism and measles harks back to pagan times but has spilled over into the Christian era in much the same way as the presence of lots of greenery has made the same journey.
It is also used against dropsy, jaundice, asthma, anaemia, and piles.
Caroline Jones, Dudley, West Mids A Bulging eyes in a goldfish is a symptom usually relating to a more serious underlying disease such as bacterial or fungal infections, dropsy (where the fish's abdomen fills up with fluid) or even trauma.
Other diseases for which alleged cures cannot be advertised are TB, leprosy, diabetes, dropsy, goitre, heart diseases, blindness and smallpox.
In a seminal paper in 1812, Wells detailed the complications of scarlet fever and described this glomerulonephritis as the "dropsy that follows scarlet fever" [3].
A New York Times story describes cannabis as a medicine that "has been used...with great success in cases of dropsy."
Also known as pulmonary hypertension, mountain sickness, and dropsy, the disease results from elevated pulmonary arterial pressure caused by lack of oxygen.
The abdomen is soft, no lower limbs dropsy. On auxiliary examination, chest CT scan [Figure 1]b, [Figure 1]c, [Figure 1]d, [Figure 1]e, November 12, 2014] found diffused uniform ground-glass shadow in two lungs with no enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes.