362° COMMUNICATIONS 
The want of a certain diuretic, has long been one 
of the defiderata of medicine. “The Digitalis is un- 
doubtedly at the head of that clafs, and will feldom, 
if properly adminiftered, difappoint the expectation. 
I can fpeak with the more confidence, having, inan 
extenfive practice, been a happy witnefs to its a: 
qualities. | 
For feveral years, I have given the infufion im 
i 2 variety of cafes, where there was a deficiency 
in nie fecretion of the badesat wit the wet fuc- 
many elutes, In Peis se tifeafes. Se ‘in 1 the. 
anafarca, when combined with the afcites ; in fwel-_ 
 Jings of the limbs, and in difeafes of the cheft, when 
there was the greateft reafon to believe an accu- 
mulation .of ferum, the moft beneficial cantes ; 
quences have followed from i its ufe. : 
Bad L been earlier acquainted with your inten- 
tion to spablith an account of the Digitale aha. 
