fron CORRESPONDENTS. 177 
Case Wi ——— 
oD , a middle aged fingle woman, 
was affected in the year eighty-one, with a painful 
rigidity and flight inflammation of the integuments 
on the left fide, extending from the ear to the fhoul- 
der. In eyery other particular fhe was healthy. 
The ufe of warm fomentations, and opium, with 
two or three dofes of mercurial phyfic, afforded her 
eafe and theinflammation difappeared, but was fuc- 
ceeded by an oedematous {welling of the part, which 
very gradually extended along the arm, and down- 
ward to the breaft, back, and belly. Friction, 
electricity and mercurial ointment were amongtt the 
number of applications unfuccefsfully employed to 
relieve her for the fpace of three months, during 
_ which time fhe continued in good general health. 
In November fhe became afcitic, paffing fmall 
quantities of urine, and foon afterwards a fudden 
_ dyfpnoea gave occafion to fuppofean effufion of water 
in the thorax. The Digitalis, fquills, and cantha~ 
tides were given in very confiderable dofes without 
effe&. She died the latter end of December fol- 
lowing. 
CASE VII. 
: Wie Ceniee;..a collier aged 58, was at- 
_ tacked in the fpring of 1783 with 2 tertian ague, 
which he attributed to cold, by fleeping in a coal 
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