| He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy. |
| She suffered from gout and dropsy for many years, though her death in 1619 was sudden. |
| Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations. |
| With some people the spleen increases in volume through the action of this humour, as a result of which cachexy and dropsies ensue. |
| Bright separated dropsies of renal origin from dropsies due to other causes, such as heart and liver disease. |
| It does not seem necessary to say that there can be no comparison between old men with dropsies and young women with consumptions. |
