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the ufe of the mixture three times in the day till 
the 30th, and made-about three pints of water daily, 
by which means the fwellings were entirely taken 
away ; and his other complaints fo much relieved, 
that on the 6th of June he was difmiffed free from 
complaint, except a flight cough. But returning to 
his old courfe of life, he hath had frequent attacks 
of his diforder, which have been always removed by 
ufing the ae 
Extradt ofa letter from 1 Mr. Los, se 
—Mr. Moggs was about 54 years of age, his dif- 
eafe a dropfy of the abdomen, attended with 
anafarcous {wellings of the limbs, &c. brought on by 
exceffive drinking. I believe the firft fymptoms of 
the difeafe appeared the beginning of November, 
1776; the medicines he took before you faw him, 
quills in different forms, fal diureticus and 
1, but without any good effe& ; he begun the 
Digitalis on the 10th of July 1777 ; a few dofes of 
it caufed a giddinefs in the head, and almoft de- 
_ prived him of fight, with very great naufea, but 
very little vomiting, after which a confiderable flawof 
and in a very fhort time, a very little 
water remained eitherin the cavity of the abdomen, 
or the membrana adipofa, but he remained exceflive — 
weak, with a fluttering pulfe at the rate of 150 oF 
_drequently i160 in a minute ; he kept pretty free 
ro: = h water for upwards of twelve months ; it then 
oe collect- 
