Excerpt from On the Nature and Treatment of Dropsical Diseases, Vol. 3 of 4: In Four Parts In the present edition this little work is enlarged, in order to embrace all the forms of dropsy which are usually entrusted to the care of the medical practitioner. As the treatment of this disease has been hitherto very generally conducted in a routine manner by the employment of one set of remedies, and without reference to the various afi'ections which produce it, I have in the following pages embodied a concise account of all those diseases which are accompanied or followed by dropsical swellings and have pointed out the different modes of treatment, which, in my experience, have been proved to be most successful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.