method, assisted by
bandage, might be used so as to effect a cure, in the earlier stages
of ovarium dropsy?

CASE LXII.

_February_ 27th. Mrs. O----, of T----, AEt. 52, with a constitution
worn out by various complicated disorders, at length became
dropsical. The Digitalis was given in small doses, in hopes of
temporary benefit, and it did not fail to fulfil our expectations.

CASE LXIII.

_March_ 16th. Mrs. P----, AEt. 47. Great debility, pale countenance,
loss of appetite, legs swelled, urine in small quantity. A dram of
Fol. siccat. Digital. in a half pint infusion was ordered, and an
ounce of this infusion directed to be taken every morning. Myrrh and
steel were given at intervals. Her urine soon increased, and the
symptoms of dropsy disappeared.

CASE LXIV.

_March_ 18th. Mr. W----, in the last stage of a pulmonary consumption
became dropsical. The Digitalis was given, but without any good
effect.

CASE LXV.

_April_ 6th. Mr. B----, AEt. 63. For some years back had complained of
being asthmatical, and was not without suspicion of diseased viscera.
The last winter he had been mostly confined to his house; became
dropsical, lost his appetite, and his skin and eyes turned yellow. By
the use of medicines of the deobstruent class he became less
discoloured, and the hardness about his stomach seemed to yield; but
the ascites and anasarcous symptoms increased so as to oppress his
breathing exceedingly. Alkaline salts, and other diuretics failing of
their effects, I ordered him to take an infus. of Digitalis. It
operated so powerfully that it became necessary to support him with
cordials and blisters, but it freed him from the dropsy, and his
breath became quite easy. He then took soap, rhubarb, tartar of
vitriol, and steel, and gradually attained a good state of health,
which he still continues to enjoy.

CASE LXVI.

_April_ 8th. Mr. B----, AEt. 60. A corpulent man, with a stone in his
bladder, from which at times his sufferings are extreme. He had been
affected with what was supposed to be an asthma, for several years by
fits, but through the last winter his breath had been much worse than
usual; universal anasarca came on, and soon afterwards an ascites. Now
his urine was small in quantity and much saturated, the dysuria was
more dreadful than eve