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of this place, I got an opening made between the ribs upon the lower and hinder part of the thorax. About a pint of fluid was immediately discharged, and his breath became easy. This fluid coagulated by heat. After some days a copious purulent discharge issued from the opening, his cough became less troublesome, his expectoration less copious, his appetite and strength returned, he got abroad, and the wound, which became very troublesome, was allowed to heal. He then undertook a journey to London; whilst there he became worse: returned home, and died consumptive some weeks afterwards. PUERPERAL ANASARCA. Sec. 36. This disease admits of an easy and certain cure by the Digitalis. Sec. 37. This species of dropsy may originate from other causes than child birth. In the beginning of last _March_, a gentleman at Wolverhampton desired my advice for very large and painful swelled legs and thighs. He was a temperate man, not of a dropsical habit, had great pain in his groins, and attributed his complaints to a fall from his horse. He had taken diuretics, and the strongest drastic purgatives with very little benefit. Considering the anasarca as caused by the diseased inguinal glands, I ordered common poultice and mercurial ointment to the groins, three grains of pulv. fol. Digitalis night and morning, and a cooling diuretic decoction in the day-time. He soon lost his pain, and the swellings gradually subsided. THE END. BOOKS, Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Booksellers, Paternoster-Row, London. AN ACCOUNT OF THE Scarlet Fever and Sore Throat, Or, SCARLATINA ANGINOSA; Particularly as it appeared at BIRMINGHAM in the Year 1778. By WILLIAM WITHERING, M. D. Price 1s. 6d. Also, Price 2s. 6d. Outlines of MINERALOGY, Translated from the original of Sir TORBERN BERGMAN; with NOTES, By WILLIAM WITHERING, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh. In the Spring of the Year 1786, will be published, by the same Author, a New Edition of the
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