Temporary Generalized Oedema of Obscure Origin

Abstract

Very few papers have been written about temporary generalized oedema of unknown origin. When one has excluded such obvious causes of temporary oedema as starvation, nephritis, hepatitis, diarrhoea, heart failure, burns, chronic suppuration, excessive hydration, sodium retention due to drugs, or even drug allergy, there remains a group of cases in which oedema develops without apparent cause and disappears with equally little apparent reason.