An inaugural dissertation on universal dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Revd. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost; the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine: on the twelfth day of May, A.D. 1791. By Elijah Perkins. A.B. of Connecticut, Member of the American Medical Society, at Philadelphia. [Five lines of Latin quotations].