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pofe. Repeated bleeding had no effet in diminifh- 
ing the violent aétion of the heart. He died in 
January following, under complicated fymptoms of 
phthifis and tees 
a 6 Sg 
3a man aged 57, who had lived freely in the fum- 
wt of 1784, became affe@ed with oedematous 
fwelling of his. legs, for which he was advifed to 
irink Fox Glove Tea took a four ounce bafon 
of m with the green leaves, 
Oa the 5th he was faddenly feized with faintnefs 
and cold fweatings. I found him with a pale coun- 
tenance, complaining of weaknefs, and of pain, 
with a fenfe of great heat in his ftomach and 
bowels. The fwelling of the legs was entirely gone, 
he having evacuated urine in very large quantities 
for the t two Shoes days. He was s affeded with 
m eve ry h bli: nifters- were applied 
to the ancles, = sehsich his ‘pti became gra- 
dually alleviated, aa he recovered perfeétly in the 
— fpace of three wee eks 
farca, for which the Digitalis was afterwards fuccefs- 
ally employed, in {mall dofes, without pee dif 
ble eo. pig Ge eee 
; except a relapfe of the ana- | 
