ediately
removed by a small glass of brandy.

Birmingham, 1st July, 1785.

Communications from Mr. YONGE,
Surgeon, in Shiffnall, Shropshire.

Dear SIR,

I have great satisfaction in complying with your just claim, by
transcribing outlines of the subsequent cases, for insertion in your
long requested tract on the Digitalis purpurea. The two first of these
you will easily recollect, the cures having been conducted immediately
under your own management, and the whole may add to that weight of
evidence which long experience enables you to adduce of the efficacy
of that valuable medicine. I have recited the only instances of its
failure which occur to me, but many other, though successful cases,
wherein its utility might seem dubious, and also the accounts received
from people whose accuracy might be suspected, I shall not for obvious
reasons trouble you with.

I am, dear Sir,
Your obliged friend,
WILLIAM YONGE.

Shiffnall,
_May_ 1, 1785.

CASE I.

A Gentleman aged 49, on the night of the 21st of August, 1784, awaked
with a sense of suffocation, which obliged him to rise up suddenly in
bed. I found him complaining of difficult respiration, particularly on
lying down; the countenance pale, and the pulse smaller and quicker
than usual. Some brandy and water having been given, the symptoms
gradually abated, so that he slept in a half recumbent posture. The
following day he expressed a sense of anxiety and weight in the chest,
attended by quicker breathing upon motion of the body. That evening an
emetic of ipecacoanha was given, and afterwards a draught, with
vitriolic aether and confect. card. aa [Symbol: dram]i to be repeated as the
symptoms should require it. He continued to be affected with slighter
returns of the dyspnoea at irregular intervals, until _September_ 15th,
when upon a more severe attack, the emetic was repeated. He now
recollected some slight pain in his arms which had affected him
previous to this last seizure, and was disposed to consider his
complaint as rheumatic. Pills with gum ammoniac. gum guaiac. and
antimonial powder were directed, with infus. amar. simpl. twice a day.
The bowels were regulated by aperient pills of pulv. jalap. aloes and
sal. tartar. and [Symbol: dram]iss