Dropsy
Dropsy — the body swollen and waterlogged — often touches a season of illness from which renewed vigour eventually returns. The dream may ask where you feel heavy, congested, or unwell, whether you trust recovery to follow the affliction, and what word of an absent person's good health might soon reach you to lighten the weight.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dropsy, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of being afflicted with the dropsy, denotes illness for a time, but from which you will recover with renewed vigor. To see others thus afflicted, denotes that you will hear from the absent shortly, and have tidings of their good health.