112 |. COMMUNICATIONS. 
A Letter to the Author, from Mr. Bonen, 
_ Surgeon, at Brofeley, in Shropfhire. 
Dear Str, Brofeley, 25th May, 1785. 
HAVE inclofed the preferiptiotis that contained 
the fol. Digital. which I gave to Thomas Cooke and 
Thomas Roberts, 
Thomas Cooke, Ait. 49, had been ill about two 
or three weeks. When I faw him he had no appe- 
tite, and a. conftant thirft: a fullnefs and load ae 
the ftomach: the thighs, legs ‘and hands, much 
fwell'd, and the face and throat ina morning ; was _ 
coftive, and.made but little water, which was high 
coloured ; the pulfe very weak, and his breath ex- 
ceeding bad. Fune 17th. R. Argent. viv 3i. conf. 
cynofbat. Dii. fol. Digital. pulv. gr. xv. f. pil. xxiv. — 
capt. ii. omni noéte hora decubitus: He was likees 
wife purged by a bolus of argent. viv. jallap, Digit. ; 
elaterium and.calomel, which was repeated on the 
fourth day, to the third time. - From Fune 17th to 
the 29th, the fymptoms were moftly removed, 
making water freely, and having plenty of ftools ; 
in a week after he was perfectly well, and remains _ 
fo ever fince. The cure was finifhed by fteel and 
bitters, Saxe : 
Thomas Roberts, Ait. 40, had a deformed cheft, zs 
was obliged to be almoft in an ere@ potture when i: 
in bed; the other fymptoms were nearly the fame 
88 Cooke's. Augufi 3d. The pills preferibed Fume 
