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COMMUNICATIONS 
FROM CORRESPONDENTS. 
‘London, Norfolk-ftreet, 
May 31ft, 1785. 
: Sir, 
I HAD the favour of your letter laft week; 
and I thall be very happy if I can give you any 
intelligence relating to the Foxglove, that can an- 
fwer the pens in which oe fo fandably en- 
gaged. = ‘ : * 
It is true that my eS the i Drs. Cawley, 
was greatly relieved, and his life, perhaps, pro- 
longed for a year, by a decoction of the Foxglove 
root; but why it had not a more lafting effect, it is 
neceffary I fhould tell you that he had all the figns * | 
of a diftempered vifcera, long before any watery 
fwellings appeared; it was manifeft that his dropfy’ 
was merely fymptomatic, and he could therefore on- 
ly from time to time have any relief from miedi- 
cine. In the year 1776, he returned from. Lon- os 
don to Oxon. having confulted feveral phyf 
at the former place, and Dr. Vivian at 1 
_ but without any fuccefs; and he was 
= 2 carpenter at Oxon. that had been red 
A pectoris = the rosgores root; _ and 
