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September 30th. Mr. A » et. 57- A ftrong 
man; hydrothorax and fwelled or ; in other ref- 
pects not unhealthful. He was direéted to take two 
grains of the Pulv, fol. Digit. made into a pill with 
gum ammoniac. Forty grains thus taken at intervals, 
effected a cure by increafing the quantity of urine, 
and he has had no rela apfe. 
EDS wep & LV. 
November 2d. Mr. P—— of T——, £t. 42. -A 
very ftrong man, drank a great quantity of ftrong 
ale, and was much expofed to alterations of heat 
and cold. About the end of fummer found himfelf~ 
fhort winded, and loft his appetite. The dyfpnea 
gradually increafed, he. got a moft diftreffing fenfe 
of tightnefs acrofs his tomach; his urine was little, 
and high coloured; and iis. legs b egan to fwell; his 
pulfe flender and feeble. From the goth of Sep- 
tember I frequently faw him, and obferved_a gradual 
and regular increafe of all his complaints, notwith- 
flanding the ufe of the moft powerful medicines rT 
could prefcribe. He took chryftals of tartar, feneka, 
gum ammoniac, faline draughts, emetics, tin 
cantharides, fpirits of nitre dulcified, fquills 
forms, volatile alkaly, calomel, Dover's 
ke. lifters and drattic purgatives eT 
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