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tail of my own experience, fhall be allowed the 
merit of at leaft a well meant acknowledgment, for 
the early communication you were fo kind to make 
me, of the valuable properties you had found in it; 
I {hall confider my time as well employed. A know- 
‘ledge of what has been already done is the beft 
ground work of future experiment; on which ac- 
count I have been the more full on this fubjeét, in 
hopes that given with the cautions which you mean 
to lay down in the cure of dropfies, it may prove 
alike ufeful in that of other difeafes, one of which 
ends foremoft among the a of — 
GAS E I, 
Mrs. = Orthopnea, pain, and exceffive 
oppreffion at the bottom of the fternum. Pulfe 
irregular, ‘with frequent intermiffions. Appetite 
very much ate Legs anafarcous. 
ae 
donec ie excitetur Ran —, fat copi- 
dere above Sieigh ad to be re- 
3 oe atte accou tof the great emergency of 
_ the cafe, but then nfea excited by the firft dofe pre- 
_ vented its being given at fuch fhort intervals. A 3d 
I found had been given, which was followed by — 
ings. All her complaints gradually abated, — 
