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from CORRESRONDENES. — 
A Leiter from Mr. Vaux, | Surgeon, in 
Birmingham. "Sina 
Dear Srr, — 
__I SEND you the two following <kiias 
wherein the Digitalis had very powerful and fen- 
fible effets, in the cure of the different patients. - 
G5 Se I. 
Mrs. O of L fireet, in this town, 
aged 28, naturally of:a thin, fpare habit, and her 
family inclinable to pht vit ot arose 1ithof 
June, 1779; at which time the: ¢ 
pain” in her = 
and belly full of water, and from ae ficulty 
fhe had in breathing, I concluded there, was water a 
in the cheft alfo. The quantity of water made at a 
time for three weeks before I fawher, never amount- 
ed to more than a tea-cup full, frequently not fo 
much, Finding her in fo alarming a fituation, IE gave : 
it as my opinion fhe could receive no benefit. fron 
medicine, and requefted | her not to take am 
the ent very defirous of my ordering h 
thing, I complied, and fent her a box o pills 
“{quills, and a mixture with falt of tartar: thefe 
inedicines fhe took until the fixteenth, without any = 
good effects 2 the water im he legs now began to on 2 
fude 
