_August_ 16th. Mr. G----, of W----, AEt. 86. Asthma of many years
duration, and lately an incipient anasarca, with a paucity of urine.
He had never lived intemperately, was of a chearful disposition, and
very sensible: for some years back had lost all relish for animal
food, and his only support had been an ounce or two of bread and
cheese, or a small slice of seed-cake, with three or four pints of
mild ale, in the twenty-four hours. After trying chrystals of tartar,
fixed alkaly, squills, &c. I directed three grains of Pulv. fol.
Digital. made into pills, with G. ammoniac, to be given every six
hours; this presently occasioned copious discharges of urine, removed
his swellings, and restored him to his usual standard of health.