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After being frequently urged to write upon this subject, and as often declining to do it, from apprehension of my own inability, I am at length compelled to take up the pen, however unqualified I may still feel myself for the task.
G---- A----, a husbandman, aged 57. Was in the year 1782 affected with a slight, but constant pain in his breast, with difficult respiration. His countenance was yellow; the abd...
6. Chapter 6_August_ 15th. Mrs. C----, Æt. 60. Ascites, anasarca, diseased viscera, paucity of urine, and total loss of appetite. These complaints had heretofore existed repeatedly, and had...
7. Chapter 7_Nov._ 8th. Mr. G----, Æt. 35. In the last stage of a phthisis pulmonalis, was attacked with a most urgent and painful difficulty of breathing. Suspecting this distress might ar...
2. Chapter 2I had not, however, yet introduced it into the more regular mode of prescription; but a circumstance happened which accelerated that event. My truly valuable and respectable fri...
5. Chapter 5_June_ 29th. Mr. A----, Æt. 58. Kept a public house and drank very hard. He had symptoms of diseased viscera, jaundice, ascites, and anasarca. After taking various deobstruents...
8. Chapter 8R. Fol. siccat. Digital. [Symbol: dram]iii. coque in. aq. fontan. [Symbol: ounce]xii. ad [Symbol: ounce]vi. cola et adde. aq. juniper. comp. [Symbol: ounce]ii. sacchar. alb. [Sy...
10. Chapter 10Matth. D----, Æt. 71. Tall and thin. Disease a general anasarca, with great difficulty of breathing. The lac ammoniac. somewhat relieved his breath; but the swellings increased,...
3. Chapter 3_September_ 12th. Miss C---- of T----, Æt 48. An ovarium dropsy, and anasarcous legs and thighs. For three months in the beginning of this year she had been under the care of Dr...
9. Chapter 9This is the second time that I have relieved this patient by the infusion of Foxglove. I used the same proportion of the fresh leaves the first time as I did of the dried ones t...
4. Chapter 4_July_ 9th. Mrs. F----, Æt. 70. A chearful, strong, healthy woman; but for a few years back had experienced a degree of difficult breathing when in exercise. In the course of th...
1. Chapter 1After being frequently urged to write upon this subject, and as often declining to do it, from apprehension of my own inability, I am at length compelled to take up the pen, how...
12. Chapter 12§ 15. In epilepsy dependant upon effusion, the Digitalis will effect a cure; and in the cases alluded to, the dropsical symptoms were unequivocal. It has not had a sufficient tr...