g00 PRACTICAL REMARKS 
ideas relative to the nature of the difeafe, but had 
alfo confirmed them by diffections. 
In the year 1781, another ae in the firft fiage 
demanded my attention. The reader is referred 
back to Cafe LXIX for the particulars. 
__ Thave not yet been able to determine whether the 
Digitalis can or cannot be ufed with advantage in 
the fecond ftage of the hydrocephalus. In Cafe 
XXXII. the fymptoms of death were at hand; in 
Cafe LXIX. the practice, though fuccefsful, was too 
complicated, ee in = Sint the ere was 
certainly { onned too : 
Fee in ee a 
pate a ee ee a tA 
When we confider what enormous quantities of 
~ tercury may be ufed in this complaint, without af- 
fecting the falivary glands, it feems probable that 
other parts may be equally infenfible to the a@ion 
of their peculiar Rimuli, and therefore that the Di- 
gitalis ought to be given in ee spies in eae 
oe other aes, i 
“HYDROTHORAX. 
§ 18. UND. ER this name T aif include the 
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