Note 476 — ON THE PROGNOSTICS.
Francis Adams translation
On this variety I have remarked in the Comment. on Paulus Ægineta: “Hippocrates refers one species of dropsy to disease of the parts situated in the loins, by which Galen and Stephanus agree that he means the jejunum, mesaraic veins, and kidneys.” (Paulus Ægineta, l. c.) M. Littré accordingly holds it probable that allusion is made to granular degeneration of the kidneys, that is to say, to Bright’s disease. (Opera, etc., tom. ii., 388.)