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{mall quantity ; body coftive; pulfe natural; face 
much emaciated, eyes yellow and depreffed. He 
had been fubje& to cough and difficulty of breathing 
in the winter for feveral years; and about four 
years before this time, after being expofed to cold, 
was fuddenly deprived of his fpeech and the ufe of 
the right fide, which he recovered as the warm wea- 
ther came on; but fince that time had been remark- 
ably coftive, and was in every refpe& much debili- 
tated. He firft perceived his legs fwell about a year 
ago; by the ufe of medicines and exercife, the 
fwellings fubfided during the fummer, but returned 
on the approach of winter, and gradually increafed 
to the ftate in which I found them, notwithftand- 
ing he had ufed different preparations of {quills and 
a great variety of other diuretic | medicines. I 
ordered the following mixture. Ne eee 
R. Foliorum Digitalis purpur. re ecent 
que ex aq. fontan. 3xii ad svi co) 
Tinétur. aromatic. 
Syr. zinzib. aa 3i. m. capt. cochl. duo larga fe- 
canda quaque hora ad quartam vicem nifi 
prius naufea. fuperseree 
March gth. He took iar dofes of the mixture 
- without being in the leaft fick, and made, during 
- the night badge of two abi ohn : 
Water. ees 5 
seth. 
