Inactivity of the kidneys determines an increase in the blood of waste products, which become irritating to different parts, producing skin eruptions, itching, Dropsies, and nervous disorders.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
But taking their journey through a land that abounded in all sorts of plenty, they ate, after their long want, with that excess of everything they met with, that they suffered from Dropsies and dysenteries.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Well, she's got the Dropsies.
"The Twin Cousins"
Sophie May