At the relatively young age of 66, Fowler succumbed to dropsy of the chest. While this sounds like a strange cause of death to us today, dropsy was the 1800s term for edema (also known as swelling).

TRADITION is hard to break. Doubtless since the time of Adam, dropsy has been traditionally treated by the limitation of fluid intake, a natural result of the observation of the accumulation of ...

People in the 1800s didn’t have blackout curtains or iPhones keeping them up past midnight. They woke up with the sun—and went to bed shortly after it set. I chose 5:30 a.m. as my wake-up time.

A large turf knife thought to date back to the late 1800s has been discovered under the ground at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The "exciting" artefact was found during excavation work to ...

Looking for a one-of-a-kind Cape house? A church dating back nearly 200 years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts has been repurposed as a home, and it's now for sale.. The 3,400-square-foot, three-bedroom ...

At Dropsy Redhead Designs, the goal is a comfortable makeup experience and No Tumble When You Fumble." The GrabAssure three-piece set ($32.00) is available on Amazon and . Contact: ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Fire investigators in Castle Rock have determined a fire that destroyed an 1800s-era house and killed one person started accidentally. The city of Castle Rock announced Tuesday ...

Flower Fantastic x 1800 tequila Sneaker Decanter officially launches on February 18 (SRP $225), and will be available exclusively via a microsite that will go live tomorrow (we will update this ...

Like Consumption or Dropsy, it misleads us into believing that somehow the problem is about substances. Drugs in fact have absolutely nothing to do with the nature of addiction; they are just one ...

Three members of the family died in September, with two women aged 26 and 32, succumbing at private hospitals, while a 72-year-old man died at his residence. A 7-year-old girl is undergoing ...