At the Beginning of _January_, 1762, one _Carter_, a Soldier of the Eleventh Regiment of Foot, laboured under an universal Anasarca; which about two Months before had succeeded a Flux. He made but very little Water, and that of a high red Colour. He took Variety of Medicines, as Purges, Vomits, _Dover_’s Powder, lixivial and neutral Salts with Opiates, Infusions of Horse-Radish, all without Effect; till he was ordered small Doses of Calomel, three Grains Morning and Evening. After the third Dose he began to make Water freely; and by the 24th of _January_ the Swellings were all gone, and he was shipped off for _England_ the 8th of _February_; having been discharged from his Regiment. The Ship, he went aboard of, was detained in the River _Weser_ for above six Weeks, and the malignant Fever broke out aboard the Transport: He took the Distemper, and got well of it; but towards the Decline was seized with a Return of the Flux, which carried him off. When these oedematous Swellings came after the Purging was stopt, if the Patient’s Strength was not much exhausted, and he laboured under no other Disorder, he commonly got the better of it:--But when the Strength was gone before the Swellings appeared, the Disorder often ended in a confirmed Dropsy, and at last in Death; and when the Swellings were universal over the Body, while the Flux yet continued, it was a Sign of great Weakness, and they did not survive it long[45]. [45] Many other Medicines have been used for the Cure of old Dysenteries,--The _Conessi Bark_, recommended as a Specific in Diarrhœas, cured a Dysentery which had yielded nothing to a Variety of Medicines. _Edinburgh Medical Essays_, _Vol._ III. _Art._ iv.--The _cortex eleutheriæ vel cascarillæ_ is much recommended for the Cure of Dysenteries in the _Memoir. de L’Academie des Sciences a Paris_ 1719, and is still in great Repute among the _Germans_.--The Decoction of the _semiruba_ Bark was found to have a good Effect in the Dysentery, where the Patient continued to void Blood with his Stools; and when the Stools were only liquid, without a Mixture of Blood, some of the Cascarilla added to the Decoction encreased its Efficacy. See _Degnerus_’s Treatise _de Dysenteria_, _cap._ iii. _sect._ 55. These and many other Remedies have been tried in obstinate Dysenteries. From what I have observed myself, and from the Accounts of others, I am now convinced, that such Cases as are not already too far gone, are most likely to be cured,