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of the editor: can be ihe from the 
cafes I now prefent ‘to him: Thefe cafes 
muft be confidered as the moft hopelefs and 
deplorable that exift; for phyficians are fel- 
dom confulted in chronic difeafes, till the 
ufual:remedies have failed : and, indeed; for 
fome years, whilft I was lefs expert. in the 
management of the Digitalis, I feldom pre- 
fcribed it, but when the failure of every other 
method compelled me to do it ; fo that upon 
the whole, the inftances I am going to ad- 
duce, may truly be confidered as cafes loft to 
the common run of practice, and only 
Matched from deftruction, by the efficacy 
of the Digitalis; and this in fo remarkable 
a manner, that, if the properties of that 
plant hadnot been cicorana atk fee the 
greateft sche af: thefe patients © ; 
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tr are men whowill tabdly sehinie ofany 
thing which an author advances in fupport of 
a favorite medicine, and I allow they may 
have fome caufe for their hefitation: nor do- 
st —— they will: wave mee ufual modes of 
