Assertion: digitalis | /r/HasProperty | given in dropsy
Facets:
value: as a diuretic
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As a diuretic, digitalis is given only in dropsy; and there is no variety of this disease, strictly speaking, in which it may not be used with a prospect of advantage; for ovarian dropsy and infantile meningitis, in which it is admitted that the medicine is of little or no service, though they are frequently designated as dropsies, are not entitled to the name; at least they are pathologically distinct from the other forms of the disease.