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infufion of the green leaves, and it produced pre- 
cifely the fame effects for it increafed the urinary 
difcharge, without exciting the violent vomiting. 
Lesion ee Doctor Jobers Phyfician, in 
Birmingham. 
Dear a 
ee _ THE following cafes are felected 
from many ees in which I have given the Digi- 
lis purpurea; and from repeated experience | of its 
aifieacy after other diuretics have failed, I can re- 
commend it as an etiectual, and when properly 
managed, a fafe medicine. 
Iam, &c. 
Birmiagham, May 26, — Jef 7 N 5 i ONE. 
—; ae aE a cola: nite sacha led 
-esular and. temperate- life, At. 68. He was 
affected with great difficulty of refpiration, and cough 
particularly troublefome on attempting to lie down, 
cedematous | fwellings of the legs and thighs, abdo- 
_ men tenfe. and fore on being. preffed, pain ftriking 
from the pit of the ftomach to the back and fhoul- — 
= ders; almoft conftant naufea, efpecially after taking 
food, which he frequently threw up; water. tbisk 
