In which the Digitalis was given by the
Direction of the Author.
1775.
It was in the course of this year that I began to use the Digitalis in
dropsical cases. The patients were such as applied at my house for
advice gratis. I cannot pretend to charge my memory with particular
cases, or particular effects, and I had not leisure to make notes.
Upon the whole, however, it may be concluded, that the medicine was
found useful, or I should not have continued to employ it.