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the anafarcous limbs readily pitting under the ref 
fure of the finger, we may expect the diuretic ef- 
| fects to follow ina — manner. 
In cafes which foil every attempt at relief, I have 
been aiming, for fome time paft, to make fuch a. 
change i in the conftitution of the patient, as might 
give a chance of fuccefs to the Digitalis. 
By blood-letting, by neutral falts, by chryftals 
of tartar, -fquills, and occafional purging, I have 
ceeded, esthsogl inuperiadlly Next to the ufe 
, I think nothing wers the tone of 
of the tant = r 
the ts more effedually than the fquill, and con- 
fequently it will always be proper, in fuch cafes, to 
ufe the fquill ; for if that fail in its defired effe@, it 
is one of the beft preparatives to the adoption of the 
Digitalis, 
A tendency to paralytic affeations, or a ftroke af 
the palfy having actually taken place, is no objec- 
tion to the unfe of the Digitalis ; neith es 
ftone exifting in the bladder forbid its ufe. ‘The 
retical ideas of fedative effeds in the former, and 
apprehenfions of its excitement of the urinary or- 
gans in the latter cafe, might ‘operate fo as to 
make us with-hold relief from the patient; but ex 
‘perience tells me, that-fuch apprehenfions are 
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