_June_ 29th. Mr. B----, AEt. 60. A hard drinker; afflicted with asthma,
jaundice, and dropsy. His appetite gone; his water foul and in small
quantity. Neutral saline mixture, chrystals of tartar, vinum
chalybeat. and other medicines had been prescribed to little
advantage. Infusion of Fol. Digitalis acted powerfully as a diuretic,
and removed the most urgent of his complaints, viz. the dropsical and
asthmatical symptoms.
The following winter his breathing grew bad again, his appetite
totally failed, and he died, but without any return of the ascites.