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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    various diseases, some of these diseases influ- enced probably by contagion. The latter, as appears from Mr. M‘Namara’s note, gives the time which the blood drawn from the extern pa- tients, and kept in the dressing-room of the Meath Hospital, took to commence coagulation ; this, in most instances, where buff appeared, was more rapid than in those where that kind of surface was not to be observed. W. S. DYNAMIC DROPSY. The luminous and extended views on the nature and cure of dropsies, which have been published of late years, particularly by Dr, Blackall, Dr. Wells and Dr.Crampton, embrace such a number of cases of the various forms of that disease, which these able physicians treated successfully, and of illustra- tions by dissection, of such as were irremediable, that I may be considered too presuming in now entering on that subject. My apology however is, that though the object of research was the same, to establish sound and practical principles, and hence, correct and prompt decision in the treat- ment of Hydropic affections, yet encouraged by their examples to avoid the beaten track, by which each was enabled to collect many valuable facts,