_Nov._ 4th. Mr. P---- of M----, AEt. 40. Subject to troublesome
nephritic complaints, and after the last attack did not recover, or
void the gravelly concretions as usual, a sense of weight across his
loins continuing very troublesome. The usual medicines failing to
relieve him, I ordered four grains of pulv. Digital. to be taken every
other night for a week, and fifteen grains of mild fixed vegetable
alkaly to be swallowed twice a day in barley water. He soon lost all
his complaints; but we must not in this case too hastily attribute the
cure to the Digitalis, as the alkaly has also been found a very useful
medicine in similar disorders.