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Excerpt from An Essay on the Hydropic State of Fever
This exhalation ls supposed to be increased from several causes. In the first place, whatever occasions an interruption of the venous circulation, as the return of the blood from the finer arterial ramifications to the right ventricle of the heart, causes the finer and more volatile port1ons to transude through the exhalants, thereby producing an unusual accumulation in some part of the body. A polypus in the right ventricle of the heart, and an ossification of its valves toge ther with scirrhosities of the spleen, liver, and other viscera, are ascribed by all writers as fruitful sources of this disease, which they doubtless induce chiefly by pre venting the free return of venous blood to the heart. To these impediments to the circulation may be added, the compression on the descending cava pro duced by the increased bulk of the uterus, during pregnancy, and even an erect posture in weakly habits, which is so often found to produce serous swellings in the lower extremities.
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