Dropsy

I have seen in dropsy, and in some fevers; but it is also observable, that many who have exerted much voluntary effort during their whole lives, have continued active to great age. ❋ Unknown (1803)

Jesus was on the watch as well, having noticed a man who had a condition known as dropsy. ❋ Linda Washington (2007)

For sentiment is like another complaint mentioned by Horace, as increasing by self-indulgence (I am sorry to say, ladies, that the complaint in question is called the dropsy), and the more you cry, the more you will be able and desirous to do so. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If a man thus falls into sickness and cold, he is sometimes caught by dropsy, that is to say, he has an inclination towards the outward possession of earthly things. ❋ 1293-1381 (1916)

-- This condition, sometimes incorrectly called dropsy of the testicle, consists in an excessive accumulation of natural secretion within one of the coverings of the testicle. ❋ Unknown (1877)

The cedar berry is used in a popular remedy for dropsy, which is claimed by some to be highly efficacious. ❋ Unknown (1863)

I will give one remarkable cure of dropsy, which is recorded by different writers among the whites. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

Scarlet fever dropsy, which is really a _formidable disease, generally arises from, the carelessness, the ignorance, and the thoughtlessness of parents in allowing a child to leave the house before the new skin be properly formed and hardened. ❋ Pye Henry Chavasse (1844)

Their complexion is of a blueish white, that suggests the idea of dropsy; this is invariable, and the poor little ones wear exactly the same ghastly hue. ❋ Unknown (1832)

When the balance between exhalation and absorption is destroyed, by either or both of these means, a dropsy will be the consequence. ❋ Thomas Garnett (1784)

Pope is given over with a dropsy, which is mounted into his head: in an evening he is not in his senses; the other day at ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

It must be observed, that those people who have diseased livers, are more liable to this kind of hæmorrhages, as well as to the hæmorrhagia arteriosa; the former, because patients with diseased livers are more subject to paralytic complaints in general, as to hemiplegia, and to dropsy, which is a paralysis of the lymphatics; and the latter is probably owing to the delay of the circulation in the vena porta by the torpor of this hepatic vessel, when the liver is not much enlarged; and to its pressure on the vena cava, when it is much enlarged. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

The only information I could find last night for a possible cause was "dropsy" which is basically fish cancer. ❋ Lyda222 (2008)

The Tlaloc complex of deities caused people to suffer maladies and mishaps that the Nahuas associated with water — not only drownings and lightning strikes but also afflictions that caused the body to swell with fluid, such as dropsy or gout. 29 ❋ Unknown (2008)

Those dogs are going to have SO much fun when the baby learns how to play the "dropsy" game with her food and toys. ❋ Field Notes (2009)

The older squirrel who has that "dropsy" disease was there - it is amazing to me he is still alive; it's been a tough winter, colder and more snow than normal, although this is the second year in a row we've had these bad snows. ❋ Jan (2008)

This is why the position is not as it was expressed in the formulation of the problem, but the selfindulgent man is incurable and the incontinent man curable; for wickedness is like a disease such as dropsy or consumption, while incontinence is like epilepsy; the former is a permanent, the latter an intermittent badness. ❋ Aristotle (2002)