_Nov._ 1780. Mary Terry, aged 60. Had been subject to asthma for
several years; after a severe fit of it her legs began to swell, and
the quantity of urine to diminish. In six weeks she was much troubled
with the swellings in her thighs and abdomen, which decreased very
little when she lay down: she made not quite a pint of water in the
twenty-four hours. I ordered her to take two spoonfuls of the infusion
of Foxglove every three hours. By the time she had taken eight doses
her urine had increased to the quantity of two quarts in the day and
night, but as she complained of nausea, and had once vomited, I
ordered the use of the medicine to be suspended for two days. The
nausea being then removed, she again had recourse to it, but at
intervals of six hours. The urine continued to discharge freely, and
in three weeks she was perfectly cured of her swellings.