Path. Obs. Also in mod.L. form leucophlegmatia. [ad. Gr. λευκοφλεγματία, f. λευκό-ς white + φλεγματ- PHLEGM.] ‘A dropsical tendency, denoted by a pale, tumid and flabby condition of body’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1657. Physical Dict., Leucophlegmatia, a kind of dropsie.
1681. trans. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., Vocab., Leucophlegmacy, the kind of dropsy that riseth of white phlegm throughout all the body, and makes the flesh spongy.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 381. It [Cachexy] sometimes disposeth to Consumptions, sometimes to Leucophlegmacy.
1747. trans. Astruc’s Fevers, 139. The urine thus retained in the blood, soon joins with the other humours of the body; whence the lymphatic ducts are over-loaded, and a leucophlegmatia induced.
