by prejudice, are extremely flattering, and prove at least that the medicine has some power. But like all other new remedies, digitalis has been rated too highly by those who first used it. Delighted that they had discovered a medicine, which, in some cases would cure a disease, which they had been accustomed to look upon as totally incurable, these physicians have suffered themselves to attend too exclusively to its successful results, and to neglect cases in which it has failed. Other practitioners, on reading their exaggerated statements, have tried the remedy, but finding themselves frequently disappointed, have gone into the other extreme and condemned it entirely. Their representations are to be admitted with as much qualification as those of their opponents, and the judicious physician will not suffer himself to be exclusively guided by either. That in certain cases, digitalis will cure Consumption, cannot be doubted; but we have also to regret, that it very frequently fails. It was prescribed in the New-York Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Hamersley, during the last winter, in six cases which I have witnessed, of evident and well marked Phthisis. Of these, two patients were perfectly cured; one has nearly recovered, and is only retained in the Hospital for a slight cough, which is yielding; a fourth was discharged at his own request, but evidently relieved; the fifth commenced the use of digitalis, at a very advanced period of the disease, and soon died; in the last it failed entirely, and appeared rather to have done injury.