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young lady in the laft ftate of € maciati 
dropfy. Every probable means to reliey 
been attempted by Dr. Groome, but to n 
pofe; and fhe had undergone the operation of t =. 
paracentefis repeatedly. The Doétor knew, he faid, : 
that I had cured many cafes of dropfy, by the Di- 
gitalis, after other more ‘ufual methods ‘had been 
attempted without fuccefs, and he wifhed this lady 
to try that medicine under my direction ; ‘after exa- 
mining the patient, and enquiring into the hiftory 
of the difeafe, I-was fatisfied that the drapfy was 
encyfted, and that no’ medicine could avail. The 
Digitalis, however, was directed, and fhe took it, | 
but without gvaniage She had determined 1 not to 
the patient afterwards let it out Hertel? from time to 
time as the prefliire of it became froublefome, un- 
=, eet at seas ead exlraufied. 
ea BAS: there not a ptobability thet this tm 
se patie oa Be ufed, foa 
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