What is dropsy called today? Edema, also spelled oedema, and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue. Most commonly, the legs or arms are affected. What disease was dropsy? Background: Dropsy was a term used to descr...
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Today’s medical grads, still the pick of the academic litter, are smart. I can attest to that; I teach at two medical schools. But I am concerned that something happens after graduation. Are today’s doctors wearing out? Have they become non-thinking robots? And if so, why? Is it b...
Throughout its history, “syphilis” had been defined as a disease that is treated by mercury, a set of characteristic symptoms, and then finally as Treponema pallidum infection. These different concepts have different extensions, and so cannot be equated. For example, “a disease that is ...