Paper, 'A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris and the reason of it as it appeared on dissection of the body' by Sam [Samuel] Doudy [Doody] Doody provides a brief account of a nobleman who died of a dropsy [oedema] in the chest after suffering severe breathlessness, and on his autopsy his thorax was found to be full of water. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris, and the reason of it, as it appeared on dissection of the body'. [1690s]