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VI. Account of an extraordinary Dropfical Cafe. By Mr * 
John Latham, in a Letter to Mr. Warner, F. R. S. 
TO MR. WARNER. 
* r Dartford, 
® O&obar z8, 1778. 
Read Dec. 17, TXT HEN I laft had the pleafure of feeing 
you, it was your opinion, that the 
Royal Society would receive fome fatisfadlion in my giv- 
ing fome account of the cafe of Mifs a. m. who died 
lately of a dropfy under my care. 
This patient was of a florid, lively conftitution, but 
from a child was fubjedt to a violent eruption, which 
came generally on a fudden, covering the whole neck, 
breaft, and often great part of the face; and after re- 
maining a week or two abated in violence, and went off 
by degrees. The intervals were uncertain, but for the 
moft part in fpring and in autumn fhe was more apt to 
have it, though frequently three or four times in the 
year. Various methods were tried to eradicate this com- 
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