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a day. The effe& was a powerful action on the kid- 
neys, and a reduction of the fwellings, but without 
ficknefs. A degree of appetite returned, but fill 
the tendency to diarrhcea exifted, and kept her 
weak. ‘Tonic medicines were then tried, but with- 
out advantage, and in a month it was neceflary to 
have recourfe to the Digitalis again. It was direat- 
ed ina half pint mixture; an ounce to be taken 
thrice in twenty-four hours. On the ad day, find- 
ing her fymptoms very much relieved, fhe took in 
the abfence of her nurfe, neatly a double dofe of 
the medicine. The confequence was great. fi cknefs, 
languor continuing for feveral days, and almoft a 
total ftop to the fecretion of urine, from the time the 
ficknefs a 3 
The ede now been totally unmanageable i in 
my hands, and, aftera fortnight, I was difmiffed, 
and another phyfician called - in; but the did not 
long furvive. 
This was not the firft, nor the laftinftance, in which 
T have feen too large a dofe of the medicine, defeat 
= ge! purpofe = which it was directed. 
