from CORRESPONDENTS. —137_ 
This is the fecond time that I have relieved this 
_ patient by the infufion of F oxglove. - - I ufed the 
fame proportion of the frefh leaves the firfttime as 
I did of the dried ones the laft. The violent vo- 
miting which followed the ufe of the infufion made 
with the dried leaves, did not take place with the 
frefh, though fhe took near a pint made with the 
fame proportion of the herb frefh gathered. © 
Rm EM -A-R KS. 
THE above is a very inftrudive cafe, as it 
teaches us how fmall a quantity of the infufion was 
neceffary to effect every defirable purpofe. At firft 
fight it may appear from the Pe aed paragraph, 
that the green leaves ough . 0 th ’ 
dried ones, as being fo much wilder iH in their opera- 
as will appear hereafter, the ae ion with the dried 
leaves was five times the ftrength of that before 
prepared from the green ones. We need not won- © 
der, therefore, that the effeéts of the former were 
fo difagreeable, when the dofe was five times em 
than it ought to have been. But what makes this 
matter ftill more obvious, is the miftake menti 
at firft, of two tea fpoonfuls only being gi e 
~ dofe. Now a tea fpoonful, contai ing a 
foutth or a fifth part of the contents. 
fpoon, the dofe then given, was very 
3 a that which 
tion 5 but let it be noticed, ae the fame tity 
