PUERPERAL ANASAR ca. 
§ 36. THIS difeafe admits of an eafy and certain 
cure = by the Digitalis. 
§ 37. This fpecies of dropfy may originate from 
other caufes than child birth. In the beginning of 
laft March, a gentleman at Wolverhampton defired 
my advice for very large and painful fwelled legs and 
thighs. He was a temperate man, notof a _dropfi- 
cal habit, had great. pain. in his groins, “and one 
_ bated his complaint: fall from his horle._. 
had taken diuretics, and the ftrongeft draftic ao 2 
gatives with very little benefit. Confidering the 
 anafarca as caufed by the difeafed inguinal glands, 
I ordered common poultice and mercurialointment 
‘to the groins, three grains of pulv. fol. Digitalis 
night and morning, and a cooling diuretic decoction 
in the day-time. He foon loft his pain, and the 
—S gradually fubfided. ea 
