"Oedematous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1833, in the hope of deriving benefit; but after being a patient in that hospital for some weeks, he returned home much worse. In addition to the aggravation of his other symptoms, there were present oedematous swelling of the extremities, which were generally cold and benumbed, gnawing pain in the right hypochondriac region, and almost total loss of appetite. On examining the right hypochondrium, which he described as swollen, there was evident indication of an enlarged liver, and he ...
— An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis • Archibald Makellar
... Among the supplies with which the anxious care of our friends on board had now furnished us, some lemon-juice and sugar were not the least acceptable; two or three of the men having for some days past suffered from oedematous swellings of the legs, and evinced other symptoms apparently scorbutic, but which soon improved after ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry
... much emaciated; the face pale and contracted. The hands were slightly oedematous. Discolourations, answering to the ribs, were observed on the thorax; many small purple spots, hard and prominent, on the back; excoriations on the nates; and purple spots, resembling incipient mortification, on ...
— Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart • John Collins Warren |
