III. That it will often produce this effect after every other probable
method has been fruitlessly tried.
IV. That if this fails, there is but little chance of any other
medicine succeeding.
V. That in proper doses, and under the management now pointed out, it
is mild in its operation, and gives less disturbance to the system,
than squill, or almost any other active medicine.
VI. That when dropsy is attended by palsy, unsound viscera, great
debility, or other complication of disease, neither the Digitalis, nor
any other diuretic can do more than obtain a truce to the urgency of
the symptoms; unless by gaining time, it may afford opportunity for
other medicines to combat and subdue the original disease.
VII. That the Digitalis may be used with advantage in every species of
dropsy, except the encysted.
VIII. That it may be made subservient to the cure of diseases,
unconnected with dropsy.
IX. That it has a power over the motion of the heart, to a degree yet
unobserved in any other medicine, and that this power may be converted
to salutary ends.