from CORRESPONDENTS. i . 
CASES cciitaguneted fig Mr. Ie Frere, 
jun. Surgeon, in Birmingham, 
GC-A-S £ F 
Nov. 1780. Mary Terry, aged Go. Hadbeen fubje& 
to afthma for feveral years ; after a fevere fit of .t her 
legs began to fwell, and the quantity of urine 
to diminifh. In fix weeks fhe was much troubled 
with the fwellings in her thighs and abdomen, which 
decreafed very little when the lay down: fhe made 
not quite a pint of water in the twenty-four hours. 
¥ ordered her to take tw@{poonfuls of the infufion 
of Foxglove every three hours, By the time fhe 
had taken eight dofes her urine had. increafed to 
the quantity of two quarts in the day and night, 
but as fhe complained of naufea, and had once vo- 
mited, I ordered the ufe of the medicir 
{pended for two days. The naufea bein then re-_ 
moved, fhe again had recourfe to it, but at inter- 
vals of fix hours. ‘Fhe urine continued to difcharge 
; freely, and in three weeks the was tego! mes 
of her fwellings. 
CK. Se II. 
Decenlir 1782. Ac poor: woman, is 
affi@ed with an ague during the whole o 
_ naney, and for two months with dropfi fwellings 
of the feet, legs, thighs, abdomen, vasidebis ae fe 
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