_ from CORR ESPONDENT s, 112 
—I have elfewhere remarked, that when the Di- 
gitalis has been properly given, and the diuretic ef- 
effects produced, that.an accidental over-dofe bring 
ing on ficknefs, has topped the fecretion of urine. 
in the prefent inftance it likewife appears, that vi- 
olent ficknefs may be excited, and continue for fe- 
veral days without being accompanied by a flow of 
urine; and it is probable that the latter circum-- 
ftance did not take place, until the feverity of the 
former abated. If Dr. Cawley had not had a con- 
ftitution very retentive of life, I think he muft 
have died from the enormous dofes he took; and 
he probably would have died previous to the aug- 
mentation of the urinary difcharge. For if the 
Toct from which his medicine was prepared, was 
gathered in its active ftate, he did not take at each 
dofe-lefs than ¢welve times the quantity a ftrong man» 
ought to have taken. Shall we wonder then that 
patients refufe to repeat fuch a medicine, | anc that a 
“ae 
pra@itioners tremble to prefcribe it? Were any o | 
the active and powerful medicines in daily ufe to 
be given in dofes éwelve times greater than they are, 
and thefe dofes to be repeated without atttention to 
the effe&s, would not the patients die, and the 
nee be condemned as dangerous and deleteri- 
#-Yet fuch has been the fate of Foxglove! 
