dropsy

• He was suffering from jaundice, dropsy, and asthma, under which combination of diseases his body was —  Fielding
• Beyond a passage or two in Richardson's Correspondence, and a sneering reference by Walpole to Fielding's “account how his dropsy was treated and teased by an innkeeper's wife in the Isle of Wight,” there is nothing to show how the Journal was received, still less that it brought any substantial pecuniary relief to “those innocents,” to whom reference had been made in the “Dedication.” —  Fielding
• Towards the end, dropsy was added to her complicated maladies, and so, for the last two months, she was compelled to yield to the claims of utterly worn-out nature. —  The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
• Rallying, he struggled manfully for three months against the combined effects of consumption, dropsy, and dysentery. —  The Reign of Andrew Jackson
• I shall therefore content myself with specifying the nature of the disease, and when the dropsy is attended with any other affection shall notice it. —  An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases

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