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was healthful and fhould not be ftopped.—I know 
net how far the recovery in this cafe may be attri- 
buted to the Digitalis, but the child was fo near 
dying that I dared not truft to any lefs efficacious 
diuretic. 
C 4S FS exert. 
Fune 13th. Mr. C—, £t. 45. A fatman, had 
formerly drank hard, but not latterly : laft March 
began to complain of difficult breathing, fwelled 
legs, full belly, but without flu@uation, great thirft, 
no appetite ; urine thick and foul ; complection 
brownifh yellow. Mercurial medicines, diuretics 
of different kinds, and bitters, had been trying for | 
the laft three months, but with little advantage. I 
' dire@ed two grains of the fol. Digital. in powder to 
be taken every night, and infuf. amar. with tinct. 
facr. twiceaday. In three days the quantity of his 
urine increafed, in ten or twelve days all his fymp- 
toms difappeared, and he has had no relapfe. 
CASS ES a 
June 17th. Mr. N . of w—, fEt. 54. 
A large man, of a pale complexion ; had been fub- 
jeé to fevere fits of afthma for fome years, but. 
worfe than ufwal. The intermitting pulfe 
great difturbance from change of pofture, 
fwelled legs induced me to conclude that 
bation of his old complaint was ocea 
eflafion. I direéted pills with a grain and half of the 
