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From: "Jim and Pat Juon" <>
Subject: Re: DROPSY
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:37:23 -0600


http://www.chartiers.com/pages/misc/disease.txt
has detailed explanations of "diseases"

DROPSY - A contraction for hydropsy. Edema, the presence of abnormally
large amounts of fluid in intercellular tissue spaces or body cavities.
Abdominal dropsy is ascites; brain dropsy is hydrocephalus; and chest
dropsy is hydrothorax. Cardiac dropsy is a symptom of disease of the heart
and arises from obstruction to the current of blood through the heart,
lungs, or liver. Anasarca is general fluid accumulation throughout the
body.

Pat J.

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