lled asthma, particularly in the
winter. For some weeks past his legs swelled, he had great sense of
fullness across his stomach; a severe cough; total loss of appetite,
thirst great, urine sparing, his breath so difficult that he had not
lain down in bed for several nights. Calomel, gum ammoniac, tincture
of cantharides, &c. having been given in vain, I ordered two grains of
pulv. fol. Digitalis made into pills, with aromatic species and syrup,
to be given every night. On the third day his urine was less turbid;
on the fourth considerably increased in quantity, and in ten days more
he was free from all complaints, and has since had no relapse.

CASE CXXVII.

_May_ 7th. Miss K----, AEt. 8. After a long continued ague, became
hectic and dropsical. Her belly was very large, and she had a total
loss of appetite. Half a grain of fol. Digital, pulv. with 2 gr. of
merc. alcalis. were ordered night and morning, and an infusion of bark
and rhubarb with steel wine to be given in the day time. Her belly
began to subside in a few days, and she was soon restored to health.
Two other children in the family, affected nearly in the same way, had
died, from the parents being persuaded that an ague in the spring was
healthful and should not be stopped.--I know not how far the recovery
in this case may be attributed to the Digitalis, but the child was so
near dying that I dared not trust to any less efficacious diuretic.

CASE CXXVIII.

_June_ 13th. Mr. C----, AEt. 45. A fat man, had formerly drank hard,
but not latterly: last March began to complain of difficult breathing,
swelled legs, full belly, but without fluctuation, great thirst, no
appetite; urine thick and foul; complection brownish yellow. Mercurial
medicines, diuretics of different kinds, and bitters, had been trying
for the last three months, but with little advantage. I directed two
grains of the fol. Digital. in powder to be taken every night, and
infus. amar. with tinct. sacr. twice a day. In three days the quantity
of his urine increased, in ten or twelve days all his symptoms
disappeared, and he has had no relapse.

CASE CXXIX.

_June_ 17th. Mr. N----, of W----, AEt. 54. A large man, of a pale
complexion; had been subject to severe fits of asthma for some years,
but now worse than usual. The intermitting pulse, the great
disturbance from change of posture, and the swelled