The accumulation in the chest is called hydrothorax, or dropsy of the chest. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
Like CCAMs, a fetal bronchopulmonary sequestration can also cause fetal hydrops, either from the mass effect or from a tension hydrothorax that results from fluid or lymph secretion from the bronchopulmonary sequestration. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Serum may accumulate in the pericardium, owing to an obstruction of the cardiac veins, caused by hypertrophy of the substance of the heart; and when from this cause the pericardium becomes much distended with fluid, the pressure of this upon the flaccid auricles and large venous trunks may give rise to general anasarca, to hydrothorax or ascites, either separate or co-existing. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)
If this disease is not attended to at an early period, its usual termination is in hydrothorax, or dropsy of the chest. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
Dropsy, or edema of the skin, may occur beneath the chest or abdomen from heart insufficiency or from chronic collection of fluid in the chest or abdomen (hydrothorax, ascites, or anemia). ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
This does not disturb the stomach, and was used with success in cases of hydrothorax combined with anasarca. ❋ Unknown (1863)
He gave, too, with success, in hydrothorax, the tincture in doses of sixty drops, three times a day, increased until nausea followed its employment. ❋ Unknown (1863)
Employed in nervous affections, and hectic fever; in hydrothorax, from its stimulating effect on the kidneys, and in diseases of the lungs, from its augmenting the absorbent forces. ❋ Unknown (1863)
It was a favorite prescription in Philadelphia in dropsy, and Dr. Wistar recommends it in hydrothorax complicated with gout. ❋ Unknown (1863)
The next day I was taken to my father's bedside; the extreme weakness with which he spoke to me, combined with all the precautions taken in the last desperate treatment of his complaint -- acute hydrothorax -- made the whole scene appear like a dream to me, and I think I was too frightened and surprised to cry. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)
It is probable, that the two diseases commonly arise in patients of opposite physical constitutions; the hydrothorax in subjects of a weak relaxed fibre; the organic diseases of the heart in a rigid and robust habit. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
Dr. William Hamilton, the author of a valuable treatise on the digitalis purpurea, thinks the hydrothorax a more frequent disease than has commonly been imagined, because he conceives that it has often been mistaken for organic disease of the heart. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
May not primary hydrothorax be much less frequent, than has commonly been imagined? ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
The pressure of water upon the lungs, may possibly interrupt the free circulation of blood through their vessels, yet probably the same pressure would prevent the entrance of blood into the vessels, unless there be some other cause to overcome it, such as increased action of the heart, which attends only the first stage of hydrothorax. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
It seems probable, therefore, that those who have thought this collection of blood an appearance belonging to idiopathic hydrothorax, have mistaken for it the secondary hydrothorax produced by diseases of the heart. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
The following case of hydrothorax will shew, that water may exist in the chest without the symptoms, which we have attributed to organic diseases of the heart. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
The cough in hydrothorax, unlike that which attends organic diseases of the heart, is short and dry; the dyspnœa constant, and not subject to violent aggravations. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
Dr. Cullen, whose authority is of the highest estimation, evidently enumerates symptoms of them in his definition and description of the hydrothorax. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
In nearly all these cases the collection of water was principally on one side, yet the patients could lie as easily on the side where there was least fluid, as on the other; which, in the opinion of most authors, is not the case in primary hydrothorax. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
This accumulation of blood in the lungs has, by some writers, been considered as an appearance belonging to idiopathic hydrothorax. ❋ John Collins Warren (1817)
