Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de hydrope anasarca : quam, annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae fa

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DISSERTATIO MEDICA

HYDROPE ANAS ARCA.

U A Μ, ANNUENTE SUMMO NUMINE, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri,

D. GEORGII BAIR D, S. S. T. P.

ACADEMIAE EDT URGENAE PRAEFECTI,

Amplissimi SENATUS ACADEMICI Consensu,' Et Nobilissimae FACULTATIS MEDICAE Decreto;

PRO GRADU DOCTORIS,

SUMMIsQUE IN MEDICINA HONORIBUS AC PRIVILEGIIS RITE ET LEGITIME CONSEQUENDIS IERUDITORUM EXAΜINI sUBIICIT

JOANNES SMYTH, A. B.

HIBERNUS;

SOC. PHILOSOPHICO-LITERAR. go C. EXTRAORD. NEC NON, SOC. HIS T. DUB L. ET SOC. SPECUL. EDIN. SOC. HONOR. AD DIEM 24 IUNII, HORA LOCO UE SOLITI r. Denigue pro vivo miliatas sanguine venas

CUM PRIVILEGIO.

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the most hono urabie professions exercised among the fons of men ; a profession which hath been revered at ali periods, and in ali natioris, and evenheld sacred in the most polished ages of antiquitΥ. The scope of it is to preserve the being, and con sirin the health of our fellow-creatures; of consequence, to sustain the bleslings of society, and crown life with fruition. The character of a Physician, there re, not only supposes natural sagacity and acquired erudition ; but it also implies every delicacyos sentiment, every tendernesi os nature, and everrvirtve of humanity.

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AVUNCULO SUO CARISSIMO,

ARMIGERO, CUI DEBETUR QUOD HUC USQUE IN STUDIO LIBERALIUM ARTIUM ET MEDICINAE PROGRESSUS EST, BENEFICIORUM TALIUM ET TANTORIM HAUD IMMEMOR, HOC OPUSCULUM, ANIMO QUAM MAXIME GRATO, D. D. C. QUE

JOANNES SMYTH.

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RIS SERTATIO MEDICA

INAU GURA LIS,

HYDROPE AN AS ARCA.

xime insesti sunt, multum praeterea mole- e secum fert, saepissime homines asscit, et frequenter lethalis evadit; igiturque naturam ejus et cuiationem medicos probe cognoscere opoΓtet Quoniam omnes species Hydropis percurrere limi-

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a DE HYDROPE

tes hujusmodi dissertationum prohibent, de specie tantum ANASARCA dicta, mihi disceptare in ani.

mo est.

CORPORIs totius vel partis ejus intumescentia

mollis, inelastica.

HISTORIA MORBI.

ANASARCA fere a tumore pedum ac malleolo-

rum, qui vespere praecipue observatur, initium sumit, praesertim si aeger diu steterit, vel multum per diem ambulaverit; mane vero plerumque evanescit, vel multum saltem imminuitur. Cutis pressurae vestigia retinet. Morbo progrediente tumor gradatim ascendit, femora, abdomen, thoracem, et postremo faciem, manus, et totum corpus occU-