_September_ I infused [Symbol: dram]iii.
of the fol. Digitalis in [Symbol: ounce]vi. of boiling water, for four
hours; then strained it, and added [Symbol: ounce]i. of tinct.
aromatica.--On the 18th he began by taking one spoonful, which he was
to repeat every half hour, till it made him very sick, unless
giddiness, loss of sight, or any other disagreeable effect took place.
I had never given the medicine before, and had prepared him to expect
the operation to be very severe. I saw him again on the 21st; he had
taken the medicine regularly, till the whole quantity was consumed,
without perceiving the least effect of any kind from it, and continued
well till the evening of the following day, when a little sickness
took place, which increased, but never so as to occasion either
vomiting or purging, but a surprising discharge of urine. The saliva
increased so as to run out of his mouth, and a watery discharge from
his eyes; these discharges continued, with a continual sickness, till
the swelling was totally gone, which happened in three or four days.
He afterwards took steel and bitters; and continued very comfortably,
without any return of his dropsy, until the 7th of _April_ 1782, when
he was seized with an epidemic cough, which was very frequent with us
at that time. His swellings now returned very rapidly, with the
greatest difficulty in breathing, and he died in a few days. Blisters
and expectorating medicines were used on this last return.

Extract of a Letter from Mr. CAUSER.

Mrs. S----, the subject of the following Case, was as ill as it is
possible for woman to be and recover; from the inefficacy of the
medicines used, I am convinced no medicine would have saved her but
the Digitalis. I never saw so bad a case recovered; and it shews, that
in the most reduced state of body, the medicine in small doses, will
prove safe and efficacious.

N. B. The Digitalis, in pills, never occasioned the least sickness.
She took two boxes of them.

CASE.

_January_ 2d, 1785. Mrs. S----, of W----, near Kidderminster, aged 38,
has been affected with dropsical swellings of her legs and thighs,
about six weeks, which have gradually grown worse; has now great
difficulty in breathing, which is much increased on moving; a very
irregular, intermittent pulse, urine in very small quantity, and in
the seventh month of her pregnancy: a woman of very delicate
constitution, with tende