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/2 
downwards by the wei 
and two ihort, white. 
of the flowers : the filaments are two 
oked, inferted 
and crowned with large oval yellow anthe 
na. which is 
the b 
of 
tub 
& 
e 
9 
thickening toward 
ftig 
fid 
and fuiTOunded at the bottom by a fmall ned: 
the ftyle is fimple, and 
ermen is oval, 
; the cap- 
the 
gland 
fu 
b 
d contains many blackiili feeds. It grows com 
1 
y 
about road fides and hedges, efpecially 
dry 
avelly foils 
and flowers in June and July 
The leayes of Fox-glove 
h 
b 
naufe 
^ 
remark 
fcrophi 
fmell 
? 
they have been long 
d 
tumours with confiderable advantag 
taile, but no 
lly to fores and 
Refpeding the 
of this p 
an 
ili-iililS 
we are told of it; 
but the incautious 
fcrophul 
employed rendered it a dangerous remed): 
reciting the cafe of epilepfy cured by 
fays 
d eiFeds in epilepfy 
which 
\ 
t 
llU: 
we 
nd Pvay (after 
mentioned by Parkinfon,) 
Ve 
Riedicamentum hoc robuilioi 
tantum convenit. 
fiquidem violenter admodum purgat & vomitioiies immanes 
»5b 
and others, fpeaking of its fuccefsful exhibition in fcrophula, remark, 
Sed ob nimiam remedii vehementiam, continuationem ejus necefl^a- 
'*" Yet while Digitalis was generally known to 
nam 
avit. 
pofl^efs fuch medicinal adivity, its diuretic effeds, for which it is no^ 
defervedly received in the Materia Medica, were w^holly overlooked 
th 
an 
doubted claim 
difcovery Dr. Withering has 
IS cafes of dropfy, related by him and other praditioner 
d 
of eilabliihed reputat 
afford inconteftible evid 
powers, and of its pradical importance 
e 
of its diureti 
thofe difeafes 
/ 
From Dr.Withering's extenlive experience of the ufe of the Digitalis 
in dropfies, he has been enabled to judge of its fuccefs by the fol- 
lowine; circumftances : — *' It feldom fucceeds in men of preat natural 
' ixion. or in 
\ 
ftre 
th, of tenfe fibre, of warm fl 
of fl 
pi 
thofe with 
and cordy pulfe. If the belly in afcites be tenfe 
hard, and circumfcribed. Or the limbs in anafarca folid and refifl; 
we have but little hope. On the contrary, if the pulfe be feel 
or 
intermitting, the countenance pal 
fwollen belly foft and fluduatiu 
the 
ips 
d. the fl^^in cold, the 
of the Fox-glove, 
767 
M 
Liafarcous limbs readily pitting 
^ See his account 
fhed 1785; a book, which, in the opinion of D 
fliould be in the hands of every pra(5litioner of 
(M.M 
under 
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