5Sa RETROGRADE ABSORBENTS. SECT. XXIX. 



fhe perfectly regained her health, and has fuffered 

 uo relapfe. 



Af cites. 



7. A young lady of delicate conftitution having 

 been expofed to great fear, cold, and fatigue, by 

 the overturn of a chaife in the night, began with 

 pain and tumour in the right hypochondrium : in 

 a few months a flucluation was felt throughout the 

 whole abdomen, more diftinclly perceptible indeed 

 about the region of the ftomach ; fince the inte- 

 guments of the lower part of the abdomen gene- 

 rally become thickened in this difeafe by a degree 

 of anafarca. Her legs were not fw'elled, no third, 

 water in due quantity and colour. She took the 

 foxglove fo as to induce ficknefs and ftools, but 

 without abating the fwelling, and was obliged at 

 length to fubmit to the opeiation of tapping. 



8. A man about fixty-feven, who had long been 

 accuftomed to fpirituous potation, had fome time 

 laboured under afcites ; his legs fomewhat fwelled ; 

 his breath eafy in all attitudes \ no appetite ; great 

 third ; urine in exceedingly fmall quantity, very 

 deep coloured, and turbid ; pulfe equal. He took 

 the foxglove in fuch quantity as vomited him, and 

 induced ficknefs for two days ^ but procured no 

 flow of uiine, of diminution of his fwelling ; but 

 \vas thought to leave him confiderably weaker. 



9. A corpulent man, accuftomed to large potati- 

 on of fermented liquors, had vehement cough, dif- 

 ficult bieathing, anafarca of his legs, thighs, and 

 hands, and confiderabte tumour, with evident flue- 

 tuation of his abdomen ; his pulfe was equal ; his 

 urine in fmall quantity, of deep colour, and turbid. 

 Thefe fwellings had been twice confiderably abated 

 by drailic cathartics. He took three ounces of a 



of foxglove (made by boiling one ounce 



of 



