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copious expectoration. On the 4th of June, Dr. 
Darwin,* was called to her. I have not heard what 
was then done forher, but, between the 15th of June, 
and 25th of Fuly, the Door, at his different vifits, 
gave her various medicines of the deobftruent, ‘to- 
nic, pee seein diuretic, and evacuant kinds. 
On the osth of July. I was defired to meet Dr, 
s Darwin at the lady’s honfe. I found her nearly in 
a flate of fuffocation; her pulfe extremely weak and 
irregular, her breath very fhort and laborious, her 
countenance funk, her arms of a leaden colour, 
clammy and cold. She could not lye down in bed, 
and had neither ftrength nor appetite, but was ex- 
tremely thirfty.. Her ftomach, legs, -and thighs 
were greatly fwollen; her urine: very {mall in quan- 
tity, mot more than a fpoonful at a time, and that 
eee ee See. eae to oe ioe 
“She had sient no o relief f Fonts any if magentlct 
had been ufed, except from ipecacoanha vomits ; the 
dofe of which had been gradually increafed fro mi5 
to 4o grains, but fuch was the infenfible ftate ofher 
_ ftomach for the laft few days, that even thofe very 
large dofes failed to make her fick, and confequ 
ly purged her. In this fituation of things I kne 
of nothing likely to avail us, except the Digital 
but this I hefitated to propofe, from an : 
little could | abe. sepa from 
