hydropsy

A woman who had died from hydropsy, reared like a whole mountain from her board couch, bulging out the lid.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

Lieutaud 6.297 is quoted as describing a postmortem examination of an adult who had died of hydropsy, in whom the liver and spleen were entirely missing.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Lieutaud is quoted as describing a postmortem examination of an adult who had died of hydropsy, in whom the liver and spleen were entirely missing.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

He died before this work was completed, of hydropsy, and was buried in the Servite Church.

Fra Bartolommeo Scott, Leader, 1837-1902 1881

Pithiness in him dwindles into tenuity in them; honest discontinuity in the master is made an excuse for finical incoherencies in the disciples; the quaint, ingenious, and unexpected collocations of the original degenerate in the imitators into a trick of unmeaning surprise and vapid antithesis; and his pregnant sententiousness set the fashion of a sententiousness that is not fertility but only hydropsy.

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson John Morley 1880

He died before this work was completed, of hydropsy, and was buried in the Servite Church.

Fra Bartolommeo Leader Scott 1869

Her asthmatic complaints are fast terminating in hydropsy, as I have long suspected; yet the avowal of the truth and its probable consequences are overwhelming.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

"That's luck," observed the pickpocket, as the travelers disappear'd down the highway: "Tomorrow, with a slice of it, I might be riding in such a coach as that, and have the hydropsy, to boot.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903