It's dropsy, I'm afraid.

Do you have dropsy? The grippe?

You been to Dropsie Avenue and C?

You been to Dropsie Avenue and C? –Have you seen those girls? –Yeah.

- Is the dropsy of the liver or the heart? - Everything points to the heart.

I have seen the onset for dropsy and it is not a pretty sight!

I have seen the onset for dropsy and it is not a pretty sight!

He's treating one of your tenants, John Drake, for dropsy, but seems reluctant to embrace some of the newer treatments.

You have caught every pass since high school, and yet, suddenly, today you got a case of the dropsies.

The effects are dire: spasms, vomiting, dropsy, gangrene, and, according to survivors, a distinct sensation of being burned, as if by hellfire.