_October_ 28th. Mr. A----, subject to nephritis calculosa: After an
attack of that kind, had still a troublesome sense of weight about his
loins, now and then rising to pain, and a degree of dysuria, together
with a want of appetite. These symptoms not readily yielding to the
usual methods of treatment, I directed an infusion of Digitalis. The
fourth dose caused a copious flow of urine; the sixth made him sick,
and he was more or less sick at times for three days; but felt no more
of his complaints.
I don't believe it is at all necessary to bring on sickness in these
cases, but an unexpected absence from town prevented me from seeing
him time enough to stop the exhibition of the medicine.