xx INTRODUCTION, 
In my notes I find the following memorandam— 
“* February 20th, 1779, gave an account of Doétor 
** Withering’s practice, with the precautions ne- 
** ceffary to its fuccefs, to the Medical Society at 
** Edinburgh.”—In the courfe of that year, the Di- 
gitalis was prefcribed in the Edinburgh Infirmary, by 
Dr. Hope, and in the following year, whilft I was 
Clerk to Dr. Home, as Clinical Profeffor, I had a 
favourable opportunity s of oe cable < ee 
fects. age e: ae wate pt pe eons 5 
i one “ate in which i it was given properly at firft, 
the urine began to flow freely on the fecond day. 
On the third, the fwellings began to fubfide. The 
dofe was then increafed more than quadruple in the 
twenty-four hours. On the fifth day ficknefs came 
on, and much purging, but the urine ftill increafed 
though the pulfe funk to 50; On the 7th day, 2 
uads uple dofe of the infufion was pseres to be taken 
every third hour, fo as’to bring. 
The pulfe fell to forty-four, and’ 
five ina minute. SiS ) 
don t t2 v1 
= death, for two « or hese days, } her pulfe rofe to near 
one hundred. —It i is needlefs to obferve to you, how 
widely, the treatment of this cafe differed from the 
pelted hich ob ya) have found fo fuccefsfal. 
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