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sual place, and took some gallons of water from him, but he very soon filled again, and as he had a very large rupture, a considerable quantity of the water lodged in the scrotum, and could not be got away by tapping in the usual place. I therefore (on the 28th of the same month) made an incision into the lower part of the scrotum, and drained off all the water that way, but he was so very much reduced, that he died the 8th or 9th of September following, which was about two years and two months after he first begun the Digitalis.
I have had several dropsical patients relieved, and some perfectly recovered by the Digitalis, since you attended Mr. Moggs, but as I did not take any notes or make any memorandums of them, cannot give you any of them.
Communications from Dr. STOKES, Physician, in Stourbridge.
Dear SIR,
I accept with pleasure your invitation to communicate what I know respecting the properties of Digitalis; and if an account of what others had discovered before you,[8] with a detail of my own experience, shall be allowed the merit of at least a well meant acknowledgment, for the early communication you were so kind to make me, of the valuable properties you had found in it; I shall consider my time as well employed. A knowledge of what has been already done is the best ground work of future experiment; on which account I have been the more full on this subject, in hopes that given with the cautions which you mean to lay down in the cure of dropsies, it may prove alike useful in that of other diseases, one of which stands foremost among the opprobria of medicine.
[Footnote 8: See this account in the Introduction.]
CASE I.
Mrs. M----. Orthopnea, pain, and excessive oppression at the bottom of the sternum. Pulse irregular, with frequent intermissions. Appetite very much impaired. Legs anasarcous.
Empl. vesicator. pectori dolent. Infus. Digital. e [Symbol: dram]iii. ad. aq. &c. [Symbol: ounce]viii. cochl. j. o