_Nov._ 26th. Mrs. W----, AEt. 65. I had attended this lady last winter
in a very severe peripneumony, from which she narrowly escaped with
her life. When the cold season advanced this winter, she perceived a
difficulty in breathing, which gradually became more and more
troublesome. I found her much harassed by a cough, which occasioned
her to expectorate a little: the least motion increased her
dyspnoea; she could not lie down in bed; her legs were considerably
swelled, her urine small in quantity. I directed two grains of pulv.
Digitalis made into a pill with gum ammoniac, to be taken every night,
and to promote expectoration, a squill mixture twice in the day. Her
urine in five days became clear and copious, and in a fortnight more
she lost all her complaints, except a cough, for which she took the
lac ammoniacum.
It is not improbable that the squill might have some share in this
cure.