-h----, AEt. 68. One of those rare cases
in which no urine is secreted. It proved as refractory as usual to
remedies, and not having ever succeeded in the cure of this disease, I
determined to try the Digitalis. It was given in infusion, and, after
a few doses, the secretion of a small quantity of urine seemed to
justify the attempt. The next day, however, the secretion ceased, nor
could it be excited again, tho' at last the medicine was pushed so as
to occasion sickness, which continued at intervals for three days.

CASE CL.

_Nov._ 20th. Mrs. B----, AEt. 28. In the last stage of a pulmonary
consumption became dropsical. I directed three grains of the pulv.
Digital. to be taken daily, one in the morning, and two at night. She
took twenty grains without any sensible effect.

CASE CLI.

_Nov._ 23d. Master W----, AEt. 7. Supposed hydrocephalus internus. A
grain of pulv. fol. Digitalis was directed night and morning. After
three days, no sensible effects taking place, it was omitted, and the
mercurial plan of treatment adopted. The child lived near five months
afterwards. Upon dissection near four ounces of water were found in
the ventricles of the brain.

CASE CLII.

_Nov._ 26th. Mrs. W----, AEt. 65. I had attended this lady last winter
in a very severe peripneumony, from which she narrowly escaped with
her life. When the cold season advanced this winter, she perceived a
difficulty in breathing, which gradually became more and more
troublesome. I found her much harassed by a cough, which occasioned
her to expectorate a little: the least motion increased her
dyspnoea; she could not lie down in bed; her legs were considerably
swelled, her urine small in quantity. I directed two grains of pulv.
Digitalis made into a pill with gum ammoniac, to be taken every night,
and to promote expectoration, a squill mixture twice in the day. Her
urine in five days became clear and copious, and in a fortnight more
she lost all her complaints, except a cough, for which she took the
lac ammoniacum.

It is not improbable that the squill might have some share in this
cure.

CASE CLIII.

_December_ 7th. Mr. H----, AEt. 42. A large sat man, very subject to
gravelly complaints. After an attack in the usual manner, continued to
feel numbness in his lower limbs, and a sense of weight across his
loins. I direc