Sec. 36. This disease admits of an easy and certain cure by the
Digitalis.
Sec. 37. This species of dropsy may originate from other causes than
child birth. In the beginning of last _March_, a gentleman at
Wolverhampton desired my advice for very large and painful swelled
legs and thighs. He was a temperate man, not of a dropsical habit, had
great pain in his groins, and attributed his complaints to a fall from
his horse. He had taken diuretics, and the strongest drastic
purgatives with very little benefit. Considering the anasarca as
caused by the diseased inguinal glands, I ordered common poultice and
mercurial ointment to the groins, three grains of pulv. fol. Digitalis
night and morning, and a cooling diuretic decoction in the day-time.
He soon lost his pain, and the swellings gradually subsided.