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Show 600 FOXGLOVE. FOXGLOVE. Dr. Ferriar had certainly cured by an infusion of this plan} four cases of hemoptoe, a disease nearly connected with con, 601 J endeavoured to aid my own recollection of them bythe bestt counts which I could collect from themselves. ace The doses of the sumption; and in a noteto p. 18 of his second volume, hesays remedies, and the periods during which they were used, are ac- expressly, that he j curately has ¢ nepontedls stopped the progress of ing digitalis, when the patient by set g diseage to it bear the usual essening the eae of the circulating system,” Withering’s opinion of it (notwithst ane his expressed wish that it may be further ag in this disease) was not, it is true, very encouraging; but it should be recollected, that even with him it succeeded completely in one case (No. cxx.), that it relieved another (No. xl.) very far advanced, and that the remaining cases a3which it was given by him were lost before ree course was haad to t thedigitalis. Cas Thefirst case of consumption, in which I had an op- ee of ee the effects of digitalis, was in a girl ree ceived into, he Stafford infirmary, underthe care of myfriend Alexander, at the beginning of the year 1794. I notes of this case, but I perfectly recollect that her ; impressed both of us with the opinion ofits being incipient consumption. Her cough was particularlytroublesome, and her pulse very quick. The suggestio f the believe, came from me. took it in powder, I think gr. i. r three times a day recovery was so rapid, and ap» and surprise both of iad no opportunity of vhom I had prescribed 10 means so full and detailed ¢ could wi hem; but the ee circum. stances under which medicines are adr aigent ciass of patients, their exposure counteracting the effects of remedies i out br : ittle encoura causes perpetually renewing their com- plainis, together with the irregularityy of L 3 * tered to this very in- ° : E Lol their attendance, held oo sh a . a} to note down the history of eacn individual’s disease at the time I began to give the digitalis. Finding, howevey, that all of them gave a favourable report of theeffects of this remedy, that it uniformly freed them fromthe ensation of oppressive tightness about the chest, quieted their sale rendered the pulse more slow, and, wherever hecticfever and profuse night sweats had taken place, put a stop to them; transcribed from the books of the infirmary.— Then follow the cases, which it would Le needless here to detail ; they may be seen in Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowleda, prin= cipally from the West of E> land; collected by Dr. Beddoes. The late Dr. Beddoes, in relating his own experience, says: In five cases of imminent orincipient cons imption, the use of digitalis has cither removed the complaint, or, by producing the most decided good effects, affords hope of success. A young lady, with light ey and hair, of very feeble conformation, narrow chested, with elevated shoulder blades, and avery quick pulse, complained of a hard cough, which had suc« ceeded to a short hecking cough, of shooting pains in the chest, and more fixed pain in the left side, shortness of breath, chilliness, and evening feverishness, succeeded by night ee She hadlately begun to expectorate, but I was not permitted to see the expectoration. Small doses of digitalis continued for three weeks, commonly at the rate of three grains of the powderin the twenty-four hours, removed all these symptoms. No sickHess was proc luced ; on the contrary, the appetite was restored under the use of the medicine. Twoothercases, y similar, terminated equallyfavourably : only that in these sickness was produced ; in one by twenty-cight drops of the tincture, in the other by thirty-five; and it was hecessary to keep the doses between twentyand thirty. Twoothercasesarein progress, continues Dr. Beddoes, and shall be fully related hereafter. In one the attack was byfar the most severe I have ever known. After a hard cough at. tended by decline of flesh and stre th, constant indisposition, distinct evening fever-fit, with pulse at 130, but no aebeeeere tion, a most violent pain seized the left side, which rendered coughing excruciatingly painful. ‘Phe patient’s habit, weak pulse, and general loss of strength, appeared to me to prohibit general bleeding ; and topical was resisted. I trusted, therefore, to the tincture of d igitalis. This in a month has removed the cough entirely ; has much reduced the evening exacerbation of fever, which in spite of two doses of the tincture raises the pulse to 90, though it be 60 in the morning. The pain of the side conttinues, and mixes a good deal of anxiety with hope. is howeverless, It |