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pit, and from which he recovered in a few days, 
except a {welling of the lower extremities, which 
had appeared about that time, and gradually in- 
creafed for two or three months. The legs and 
thighs were greatly enlarged and cedematous. _ His 
belly was fwelled, but no flu@uation perceptible. He 
made fmall quantities of high coloured water. The 
appetite bad, and pulfe feeble. He had taken many 
medicines without relief, and was now fo reduced 
_ in ftrength, as to fit up with difficulty. An infufion 
. of the Digitalis was directed for him, in the 
proportion of one ounce of the frefh leaves to a pint 
of water ‘two ounces to be taken three times a day, 
until the ftomach or bowels became affected. Upon 
the exhibition of the fixth dofe, naufea fupervened, 
and continued to opprefs him at intervals for two or 
three days, during which he paffed large quantities of 
pale urine. The fwelling, affifted by moderate 
| bandage rapidly diminifhed, and without any repe- 
 Btior pete: ees at the expiration of fixigen 
a labour reds 
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