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gree; pale and femi-tranfparent. I found her ex- 
tremely faint, her pulfe very {mall and flow; vomit- 
ing violently, and frequently purging. She was at- 
tended by a gentleman who had feen me give the 
Digitalis in a fimilar cafe of fwelled legs after a lying- 
in (fee Cafe XXVI.) about fix months before. He 
had not confidered that this patient was delicate, 
the other robuft; nor had he attended to ftop the 
exhibition of the medicine when its effe@s began to 
take place. ‘The great diftrefs of her fituation was 
evidently owing to the imprudent and unlimited 
ufe of the Digitalis. I was very apprehenfive for 
her fafety ; ordered her cordials and volatiles; a free 
fupply of wine, chamomile tea with brandy for 
common drink, and blifters. The next day the fitu- 
ation of things was much the fame, but with all this 
difturba: ce no increafed fecretion of urine. The fame 
methods were continued ; an piabeordiee at night, 
and liniment. volatile upon flam »plied to 
groins, as fhe now complained of ¢ great pain in thofe 
parts. The third day the naufea was lefs urgent, 
the yomitings lefs frequent, the pulfe not fo flow. 
Camphorated fpirit, with cauftic volatile alkaly, was 
applied to the ftomach, emulfion given for common 
drink, and the fame medicines repeated. From 
this time, the intervals became gradually longer ie 
tween the fits of vomiting, the flow of arin 
