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The Idiot vocabulary
5 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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dropsy
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synonyms: ~leucophlegmatic ???
tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:edema---
Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.234, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/234/mode/1up
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“she’d another complaint ever so many years before she had the dropsy, and the doctors couldn’t make out what it was. And she said to me, when I went to see her last Christmas, she said, ‘Mrs Pullet, if ever you have the dropsy, you’ll think o’ me.’
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much that I feared (though possibly it will appear ludicrous to a medical man) that some dropsical state or tendency of the brain might thus be making itself (to use a metaphysical word) objective; and the sentient organ project itself as its own object.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
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Miss Favian’s dropsical dackel.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Why, you but send three drops of your elixir,
You help him straight: there you have made a friend.
Another has the palsy or the dropsy,
He takes of your incombustible stuff,
He's young again: there you have made a friend,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.434, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/434/mode/1up
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