ese desperate cases it often
procured a plentiful flow of urine, and palliated a disease which
medicine could not remove.

At a remote distance, physicians are seldom applied to for advice in
trifling disorders. Many remedies have been tried without relief, and
the disease is generally obstinate or confirmed.--It would not be fair
to try the merits of the Digitalis in this scale. It might often fail
of promoting the end desired. I flatter myself the reputation of this
plant will be equal to its merit, and that it will meet with a candid
reception.

As there is no pleasure equal to relieving the miseries and distresses
of our fellow-creatures, I hope you will long enjoy that peculiar
felicity.

Permit me to return my thankful acknowledgments, for your free
communication of a medicine, by which means, through the blessing of
providence, I have been enabled to restore health and happiness to
many miserable objects.

I am, &c.
Yours,
J. WAINWRIGHT.

Dudley, April 26th,
1785.

CASE of Mr. WARD, Surgeon, in
Birmingham.--Related by himself.

In _September_, 1782, I was seized with a difficulty of breathing, and
oppression in my chest, in consequence of taking cold from being
called out in the night. My tongue was foul; my urine small in
quantity; my breath laborious and distressing on the slightest
exercise. I tried the medicines most generally recommended, such as
emetics, blisters, lac ammoniacum, oxymel of squills, &c. but finding
little or no relief, I consulted Dr. Withering, who advised me to try
the following prescription.

R. Fol. Digital. purp. siccat. [Symbol: dram]iss.
Aq. bullientis [Symbol: ounce]iv.
Aq. cinn. sp. [Symbol: ounce]ss. digere per horas quatuor, et colaturae
capiat cochlear. i. nocte maneque.

He also desired me to take fifty drops of tincture of cantharides
three or four times a day.

After taking eight ounces of the infusion, and about twelve drams of
the drops, I was perfectly cured, and have had no return since. The
medicine did not occasion sickness or vertigo, nor had they any other
sensible effect than in changing the appearance, and increasing the
quantity of the urine, and rendering the tongue clean. After the last
dose or two indeed, I had a little nausea, which was imm