OF FOXGLOVE. 3 
large, and urged its continuance too long; for mif- 
led by reafoning from the effects of the fquill, which 
generally acts beft upon the kidneys when it excites 
naufea, I wifhed to produce the fame effe& by the 
Foxglove. In this mode of prefcribing, when I had 
fo many patients to attend to in the {pace of one, 
or at moft of two hours, it will not be expected that 
I could be very particular, much lefs could I take 
notes of all the cafes which occurred. Two or three 
of them only, in which the medicine fucceeded, I 
find mentioned amongft my papers. It was from 
this kind of experience that I ventured to affert, in 
the Botanical Arrangement publifhed in the courfe of 
the following fpring, that the Digitalis purpurea 
** merited more attention than modern a | 
“ Rowed — it.” ners se a 
“Thad net,} ° we , yet introduced it i 
valuable and Teer friend, Dr, Ath, istfoiined 
me that Dr. Cawley, then principal of Brazen Nofe 
College, Oxford, had been cured of a Hydrops Pec- 
toris, by an empirical exhibition of the Toot of the 
Foxplave, after fome of the firft phyfi 
ad declared d they could do no ‘ibiee! toxt him, — 
» determined to purfue my former ideas 
igoroufly y than before, but was too > well a 
