8 INTRODUCTION 
Stokes alfo tells me that Dr. Hamilton — “pat 
with it in the year 1781. 
I am informed by my y very see friend Dr. 
Duncan, that Dr. Hamilton, who learnt its ufe from 
Dr. Hope, has employed it very frequently in the 
Hofpital at Edinburgh. Dr. Duncan alfo tells me, 
that the late very ingenious and accomplifhed Mr. 
Charles Darwin, informed him of i ze being 
his father and myfelf, in cafes of Hydrothoray 
that he has ever fince mentioned ai in his leétures, ; 
and fometimes employed it in his practice. Cg 
crit lexivh, in the year 1783, it appeared in the 
_hew edition of the Edinburgh Pharmacopeeia, into 
which, I am told, it was received in confequence of : 
the recommendation of Dr. Hope. But from which, 
I am fatisfied, it will be again very foon rejected, 
if it fhould continue to be exhibited in the unre- 
Srained manner in | which it has heretofore been a 
| In the following cafes the teader will find other a 
difeafes befides been ae feveral cafes a 
; o with ita 5 th her trial, for i 
