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of the frefh leaves in a pint of water) every three 

 hours, for twq whole days ; it then began to vomit 

 arjd purge him violently, and promoted a great flow 

 of urine ; he was by thefe evacuations completely 

 emptied in twelve hours. After two or three months 

 all thefe fymp\o;us returned, and were again re- 

 lieved by the ufe of the foxglove ; and thus in the 

 ipace of about three years he was about ten times 

 evacuated, and continued all that time his ufual 

 potations: excepting at fir ft, the medicine operated 

 only by urine, and did not appear confiderably to 

 weaken him. The laft time he took it, it had no 

 effect ; and a few weeks afterwards he vomited a 

 great quantity of blood, and expired. 



QJEJERIES. 



1. As the firft fix of thefe patients had a due 

 difcharge of urine, and of the natural colour, was 

 ijot the feat of the difeafe confined to fome part of 

 the thorax, and the fwelling of the legs rather a 

 fymptom of the obftrucled circulation of the blood, 

 than of a paralyi'is of the cellular lymphatics of 

 thofe parts ? 



2. When the original difeafe is a general ana- 

 farca, do not the cutaneous lymphatics always be- 

 come paralytic at the fame time with the cellular 

 ones, by their greater fympathy with each other ? 

 and hence the pau.city of urine, and the great thiril, 

 diftinguiih this kind of dropfy ? 



3. In the anafarca of the lungs, when the difeafe 

 is not very great, though the patients have confi- 

 derable difficulty of breathing at their firft lying 

 down, yet after a minute or two their breath be- 

 comes eafy again ; and the fame occurs at their 

 firft rifmg. Is no,t this owing to the time neceffpry 



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