An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses / With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases

by William Withering

CASE CXVI.

June 24th. Mrs. B——, Æt. 40. A puerperal fever, and swelled legs and thighs. The fever not yielding to the usual practice, I directed an Infusion of Fol. Digitalis. It proved diuretic; the swellings subsided, but the fever continued, and a few days afterwards a diarrhœa coming on, she died.