The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

ALLEGED EXTRAORDINARY CURE. FOR DROPSY.—The

Manchester Guardian, of Wednesday, gives an account
of a married female, living in Runcorn, who had taken an
extraordinary large dose of foxglove, which is pretty gene-
rally known to be highly poisonous. The ultimate effects
of this treatment upon the individual sufferer, who was
labouring under an inveterate dropsy, which had defied all
medical art, will no doubt be highly interesting to all, and
particularly to the medical profession. The herbalist who
administered the remedy was quite confident of a success-
ful issue. We have now to confirm her judgment, by re-
porting that a perfect cure of dropsy, in its worst form,
has been effected by a large and poisonous dose of the fox-
glove. The lady, who resides in Church-street, Runcorn,
is at this time quite convalescent, it being about a fort-
night since the first dose was administered. Under the
direction of the herbalist, the husband of the lady pro-
cured one ounce of the green leaves of foxglove, which
were dried, powdered, and taken for a dose ; some spirits
were taken at the same time, in order to prevent, as the
herbalist expressed it, the herb from injuring the stomach.
A strong decoction of the fresh leaves was then used warm,
as a fomentation to the feet and legs, which were much
swollen, and in several places ulcerated ; this treatment
was followed up, renewing the internal dose as the patient
was able to bear it. A very violent action took place in
the system, attended with vomiting, and continued for
two or three days, in which time a greater part of the
dropsical serum was expelled from the patient's body.
Considerable pain at the heart was experienced during the
first action of the medicine, but it afterwards subsided,
and the lady soon found herself entirely free from her
daigerous malady. The lady's husband, who has long
appeared anxiously desirous for the recovery of his wife,
has the gratification of seeing her perfectly restored,
although, before taking the foxglove, she had been con-
fined to her bedroom for eighteen months, and was ex-
pected to live but a few days, as her appetite was so far
gone that she could take little, if any, food. What the
medical world will make of these facts is yet to be ascer-
tained, but the knowledge of a remedy so easily obtainable,
and so specific in its effects upon dropsical diseases, is of
the greatest importance. At the same time it appears
necessary to caution any person from playing, ignorantly
or lightly, with a medicine of such powerful qualities. it
seems that the herbalist has long been accustomed to ad-
minister the foxglove, in doses of a similar strength, with
the like beneficial results.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, as Thomas Hall was
driving two horses and a cart on the Bootle-road, near
the Rimrose-bridge, one of the horses became restive,
knocked down Hall, and the wheel pf the cart passing
over his body he was injured so severely that he died the
same evening.
Two MEN SUFFOCATED.—On Wednesday, inquests
were held on the bodies of a policeman named Stewart,
and another man named Carney, which had been found
in an old rubbish vault near Victoria Dock on the previous
day. It appeared that Stewart had been missed from his
beat by the inspector and another officer on Monday even-
ing, and it was at last surmised that he might have fallen
into the vault, the covering of which was open. Upon
the officer descending he felt the body of a man, which,
upon further investigation, proved to be that of Stewart.
Life was quite extinct. n the course of ,the same even-
ing, the body of another man was found iii theiSiMe holp.
The unfortunate men had been suffocated'hy tha.font an!
though it is not quite clear how they got into the` vault. ri
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—See Report of the Royal Southampton Meeting—vol. 5, page
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Clod Crushers.—Mr. Crosskill's well known Crusher and
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The Patent Serrated Roller ard Clod Crusher, after many
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THIS COMPANY begs to intimate to the Public,
that, in addition to supplying
BONE DUST and BON—
For Manure, they have become
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STRICTURE, STONE, GRAVEL.

THE Efficacy of DR. YOUNG'S UREFHRIC
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necessity of using the Bougie, which, from quent use, makes
the passage more susceptible of diseas ' it quickly removes
all soreness, quiets irritation, and al s the inflammation that
invariably attends these painful • ases.
STONE, G VEL, &c.
In these cases (perhaps e most painful that the human
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