were followed by alterative doses of the blue pill. She had also taken regularly a diuretic mixture, consisting of one drachm of nitrate of potash, one drachm of sweet spirits of nitre, half a drachm of tincture of digitalis, two drachms of spirits of juniper, and seven and a half ounces of water, three tablespoonfuls of which were taken three times a-day. She had also an occasional dose of jalap powder with cream of tartar; these had occasioned copious watery dejections. Under this treatment

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... e abdomen had gradually decreased in size, and was now only thirty inches in circumference ; on her admission it was thirty-five. The reduction was progressing.