Pathological observations, Part I. on dropsy, purpura and the influenza of the latter end of the year 1822, and beginning of that of 1823; and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustraled [sic] by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker ...

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1823
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Credit: Pathological observations, Part I. on dropsy, purpura and the influenza of the latter end of the year 1822, and beginning of that of 1823; and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustraled [sic] by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Purpura, in those by Dr. Willan,* Dr. Bateman,! Dr. Parry! and Dr. Harty,|| encouragement and aid which I most willingly acknowledge. CASE I. A. D. 1800, November. A young lady, set. 11 years, had, in the previous month of April, been bled for hepatic and pulmonary disease, threatening general dropsy, which succeeded a severe attack of scarlati- na, the blood at that time being deeply and densely covered with buffy coat. This remedy, aided by mercurials, had been effectual on that occasion. Shortly after she was removed to her father’s country residence, about forty miles from Dublin, and soon apparently recovered her usual health, and returned to Dublin without any complaint, much fuller and fatter than she had previously been. On the 19th of November, however, in the afternoon, though previously in * See his Treatise on Cutaneous Diseases, f See his Practical Synopsis. J See Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour. Vol. 5th, January, 1809* || See Med. and Surg. Journal, April, 1813.