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CONSTITUTION of PATIENTS. 
| oS of the degree of difeafe, or 
of the ftrength or age of the patient, I have 
had occafion to remark, that there are certain con- 
ftitutions favourable, and others unfavourable to 
the fuccefs of the Digitalis. 
From large experience, and attentive obferva- 
tion, I am pretty well enabled to decide a priort 
upon this matter, and I wifh to enable others to do 
_ the fame: but I feel myfelf hardly equal to the un- 
dertaking. The following hints, however, aiding 
a degree of experience in others, may lead them” 
to accomplifh what I yet can defcribe but imper- — 
fedly. LS 
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‘It feldom fucceeds in men of | great natural 
firength, of tenfe fibre, of warm fkin, of florid 
complexion, or in thofe with a tight and cordy 
pulfe. 
If the belly in afcites be tenfe, hard, and cir 
cumfcribed, or the limbs in anafarca folid and re- 
fifting, we have but little to hope. age 
On the contrary, if the pulfe be feeble or inter- 7 
_ mitting, the countenance pale, the lips livid, the 
{kin cold, the fwollen belly foft and Auctuating, Pe 
