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three times during the next three weeks. In the intervals, he 
became forgetful, delirious, and felt much pain in his head. 
The anasarca totally disappeared, discovering the most exces- 
sive emaciation ; his posture in bed became nearly natural, and 
in one of the convulsions he expired” (Blackall, Observ. on 
the Nature and Cure of Dropsies, p. 175). 
«A man, aged 50, took the tincture in medicinal doses for 
about twenty days, which produced the following symptoms: 
the pulse, which during the former use of the medicine had les- 
sened by ten or fifteen beats in a minute, sank to almost half its 
usual number. The patient was tormented by the most painful 
disquietude, so that even in the night he left the bed every 
moment; could not sleep, and with his eyes open conversed 
with persons who were not present. At the same time the 
pupils were dilated, the conjunctiva both of the eye and the 
lids was red. He had but little appetite,.with great nausea, 
violent thirst, and dryness of the mouth. The alvine evacua- 
tions were scanty, secretion of urine increased ; these phenomena, 
evidently the effect of Digitalis, showing its accumulative pro- 
perties, disappeared in about six days” (Med. Gaz., vol. xxxi. 
p- 270). 
“Dr. Williams related, upon unquestionable authority, an 
instance of a drunken butcher having taken two ounces of the 
tincture of Digitalis in two doses, of an ounce each, in quick 
succession, without the slightest inconvenience ensuing” (Med. 
Gaz., vol. i. p. 744). 
Mepicat Uszs (Homa@oparuic).— Hahnemann’s observations : 
“ Although the following catalogue of symptoms is far from 
complete, it is sufficient to prove that, in all the chronic diseases 
that physicians have succeeded in curing by Digitalis, they 
_ have constantly acted homeopathically, without being aware of 
it; but the infinitely greater number of cases in which they 
have failed with this powerful plant, must not be separated from 
~ those in which it has been directed against the pathological 
names of diseases, purely from conjecture. While they com” 
