PART 8
All dropsies arising from acute diseases are bad; for they do not
remove the fever, and are very painful and fatal. The most of them
commence from the flanks and loins, but some from the liver; in those
which derive their origin from the flanks and loins the feet swell,
protracted diarrhoeas supervene, which neither
[p. 48]remove the pains in
the flanks and loins, nor soften the belly, but in dropsies which
are connected with the liver there is a tickling cough, with scarcely
any perceptible expectoration, and the feet swell; there are no evacuations
from the bowels, unless such as are hard and forced; and there are
swellings about the belly, sometimes on the one side and sometimes
on the other, and these increase and diminish by turns.