Few medical authorities in the 1800s connected the disease to a parasite transmitted by mosquitoes. Congestive chills was the term applied to cases eventually identified as malaria, especially if ...

One man even acted as his own dropsy donor, when Dr. Davis removed 34 ounces of fluid from his stomach, promptly pumped them back into his arm. Ascitic fluid is not so good as whole blood, ...

The Rev. Thomas J. Ducey, pastor of St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church, died yesterday at St. James, L.I., where he had a country place, after a long illness from dropsy.

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