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fude through the fkin, and a fmall blifter on one of 
her legs broke. Believing fhe could not exift much 
longer, unlefs an evacuation of the water could be 
procured ; after fully iuforming her of her fituation, 
and the uncertainty of her furviving the ufe of the 
medicine, I ventured to propofe her taking the Di- 
gitalis; which fhe chearfully agreed to. I accor- 
dingly fent her a pint mixture, made as under, of 
the frefh leaves of the Digitalis. Three drams in- 
= in one se of ae ean, when cold ftrain- 
ee etablewtoa * — 
third say, till either made her F a4 “purged her, 
or had a fenfible effe& on the kidneys. This mix- 
ture was fent onthe feventeenth, and fhe began 
taking it at noon on the eighteenth. At one o'clock 
the following morning I was called up, and in- 
formed the was dying. I immediately attended 
her, and was agreeably furprifed to find their fright 
arofe from her soe eae. in sting So of the 
= h as mote sa 
a cies from the toe: quite up the — 
but the medicine now began toaffest her flomach {0 
‘much, fissics kept, nothing.on it many minutes to- ~ 
gether, Lordered herto drink freely of beeftea, which 
fi pe but ee 5 it on. her ptieiees but av ry ‘then 
