icines, and a grain of opium with five grains of rhubarb every night;
was advised to eat flesh meat, and spice, as his stomach would bear it,
with small beer, and a few glasses of wine; and had issues made in his
thighs; and has suffered no relapse.

4. A lady, about fifty years of age, had for some weeks great difficulty of
breathing, with very irregular pulse, and considerable general debility:
she could lie down in bed, and the urine was in due quantity and of the
natural colour, and she had no pain or numbness of her arms.

She took one large spoonful of the above decoction of foxglove every hour,
for ten or twelve successive hours; was sick, and made a quantity of pale
urine for about two days, and was quite relieved both of the difficulty of
breathing, and the irregularity of her pulse. She then took a grain of
opium, and five grains of rhubarb, every night, night, for many weeks; with
some slight chalybeate and bitter medicines, and has suffered no relapse.

_Hydrops Thoracis._

5. A tradesman, about fifty years of age, became weak and short of breath,
especially on increase of motion, with pain in one arm, about the insertion
of the biceps muscle. He observed he sometimes in the night made an unusual
quantity of pale water. He took calomel, alum, and peruvian bark, and all
his symptoms increased: his legs began to swell considerably; his breath
became more difficult, and he could not lie down in bed; but all this time
he made a due quantity of straw-coloured water.

The decoction of foxglove was given as in the preceding cases, which
operated chiefly by purging, and seemed to relieve his breath for a day or
two; but also seemed to contribute to weaken him.--He became after some
weeks universally dropsical, and died comatous.

6. A young lady of delicate constitution, with light eyes and hair, and who
had perhaps lived too abstemiously both in respect to the quantity and
quality of what she eat and drank, was seized with great difficulty of
breathing, so as to threaten immediate death. Her extremities were quite
cold, and her breath felt cold to the back of one's hand. She had no sweat,
nor could be down for a single moment; and had previously, and at present,
complained of great weakness and pain and numbness of both her arms; had no
swelling of her legs, no thirst, water in due quantity and colour. Her
sister, about a year before, was afflicted with similar symptoms, was
repeatedly blooded, and died univers