72 Cia: St ESae. tabs, 
mentioned, I ordered an Infufion of the Digitalis, 
a dram and half to half a pint; one ounce to be 
taken twice a day; which cured him in a fhort'time. 
On March the 23d, 1784, he fent for me agaien 
His complaints were the fame, but he was much 
more feeble. On this account I direéted a dram of 
the Fol. Digitalis to be infufed for a night in four 
ounces of {pirituous cinnamon water, a fpoonful to 
be taken every night. This had not a fufficient ef- 
fe&; therefore, on the 20d of April, I ordered the 
infufion preferibed two years. before, which foon re- 
moved his complaints. 
‘He died fi foon afterwards, fairly worn out, in his” 
ninetieth year. y- 
G-8..8 —£ CVI. 
2 nn ea ad.° Mr. S————, ‘of B h 
Ft. 61. Hydrothorax and {welled legs. Squills 
were given for a week in very full dofes, and ot} 
modes of relief attempted; but his breathing be- 
came fo bad, his countenance fo livid, his pulfe fo 
feeble, and his extremities fo c old, that I was ap- 
prehenfive upon my fecond vifit that he had not 
twenty-four hours to live. - In- this fituation I gave 
him the Infufum D Digitalis ftronger than nite viz. 
n | to take it, contrary to the aie 
¢ ie dinretic feta had peared. 
