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Show [ 82 ] -Thus IsRAEL's heav'n-taught chief o'er tracklefs fands Led to the fultry rock his murmuring bands. Bright o'er his brows the forky radiance blazed, And high in air the rod divine He raifed.Wide yawns the cliff !-amid the thirfiy throng Rulli the redundant waves, and iliine along ; 41 o With gourds, and £hells, and hehnets, prefs the bands, Ope their parch' d lips, and fpread their eager hands, Snatch their pale infants to the exuberant iliower, Kneel on the £hatter' d rock, and blefs the Ahnighty Power. BoHl:er' d with down, amid a thoufand wants, 4 I 5 Pale Dropfy rears his bloated form, and pants; " Quench me, ye cool pellucid rills I" he cries, Wets his parch' d tongue, and rolls his hollow eyes. So bends tormented TANTALUS to drink, While from his lips the re.A.uent water ilirink; 4~0 Again the rifing fiream his bofom laves, And Thirfi confumes him 'mid circumHuent waves. [ 83 J -Divine HYGEIA, from the bending fky Defcending, lifiens to his piercing cry; A:lfutnes bright DIGITALis' drefs and air, Her ruby cheek, white neck, and raven hair; Four youths protect her frotn the circling throng, And like the Nymph the Goddefs ficps along.- 0' er Hitn She waves her fcrpent-wreathed wand, Cheers with her voice, and raifes with her hand, 'Varn1s with rekindling bloom his vifage wan, And channs the 1hapelefs monfier into man. 430 . Digitalis. 1. 4_25· 0~ the claf~ Two Powers. Four males, one female. Foxglove. 'I he effetl of tills plant m that k1nd of Dropfy, which is termed anafarca where the legs ~n~ thighs are mucl~ fwellcd, atte~decl _with great difficulty of breathi~g, is truly ail:omfhmg. In the afc1tes accompan1ed w1th anafarca of people pafl: the meridian of life,. it will_ a~fo. fomet!mcs fucceed. The method of adminifl:ering it requires fome cau_uon, as .'t IS liable, 111 greater dofcs, to induce very violent and debilitating ficknefs, v-:luch contll1ues one or two days, during ·which time the dropfical colletlion, however, d1f~ppears. ~nc large fpoonful, or half an ounce, of the following decuClion, given 1w1ce a day, will generally fu~cecd in a few clays. But in more robuil: people, one large fpoonful every two hours, tdl four fpoonfuls arc taken, or till ficknefs occurs, will evacuate the clropfical fwellings with greater certainty, but is liable to operate more violently. Boil four ounces of the frcfh le::wcs of purple Foxglove (which leaves may be had at all feafons of the year) from two pints of water to twelve ounces· add to the fl:rained liqnor, ·while yet warm, three ounces of reClified fpirit of wine. 'A theory of the t:!fctls of this medicine, with many fucccfsful cafes, may be fcen in a pamphlet, call~d ~· Ex~erimcnts on l\1ueilaginou~ and Purulent Matter," publifhtd by Dr. Darwlll, m 17co. Sold by Cadell, London. Mz |