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.

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