“906 «= PRACTICAL REMARKS. 
§ 35. Many years ago, during siadeiniics upon 
Mr. B : of a confumptive family, and himfelf 
in the laft ftage of a phthifis; after he was fo ill as 
to be confined to his chamber, his breathing be- 
came fo extremely difficult and diftreffing, that he 
wifhed rather to die than to live, and urged me | 
warmly to devife fome mode to relieve him. Suf- 
pecting ferous effufion to be the caufe of this fymp- 
tom, and he being a man of fenfe and refolution, 
I fully explained my ideas to him, and told him 
—— kind of operation might afford him a chance 
of-reliefs. for I was then but little acquainted with 
the Digitalis. He was earneft for the ope “to 
be tried, and with the affiftance of Mr. Parrott, a 
very refpectable furgeon of this place, I got an 
opening made between the ribs upon the lower and 
hinder part of the thorax. About a pint of fluid 
_was immediately difcharged, and his breath became 
ae This fluid magnolia by heat... —-- 
“After fome days a fee pircloa ditharge if 
fued See openings: his cough became lef trou- 
nd ftreng sth b returned, he got abroad, sl ihe Gand, ; 
which became erechonislanes was allowed to heal. 
there [ “came ek seeee hig aie died 
—confun puve fome weeks afterwards, 3 
