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In which the Digitalis was given by the 
oe of the Joue 
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["™ rin’ in the courfe of this year that I began to 
ufe the Digitalis in dropfical cafes. The pa- 
tients were fuch as applied at my houfe for advice 
gratis. I cannot pretend to charge my memory with 
particular cafes, or particular etiedis, and I had not 
leifure to make notes. Upon the whole, however, 
it may be concluded, that the medicine was found 
ufefial «« or : thould : not have continued to siesta 
it 
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Diceaker 8th. A man about fifty years Sai age, 
who had formerly been a builder, but was now much 
reduced in his circumftances, comsplained to me of 
an afthma which firft attacked him about the latter 
end of autumn. His breath was.very fhort, his 
countenance was funken, his belly large; and, up- 
on examination, a fluétuation in it was very percep- 
e — urine for. ened time 8 had Si all 
