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

by William Withering

INSANITY.

§ 22. I apprehend this disease to be more frequently connected with serous effusion than has been commonly imagined.

§ 23. Where appearances of anasarca point out the true cause of the complaint, as in cases [XXIV]. and [XXXIV]. the happiest effects may be expected from the Digitalis; and men of more experience than myself in cases of insanity, will probably employ it successfully in other less obvious circumstances.