A Case of Mitral Stenosis with Auricular Fibrillation, Treated with Digitalis by the Cary Eggleston Method
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Gary Eggleston method of administration of digitalis is based upon using digitalis standardised in Cat-units. A cat-unit of digitalis is the weight of dry ^rug in milligrams required to kill one kilogram of cat when an aqueous infusion of it is slowly injected intravenously. The Cary Eggleston dosage, to produce c?mplete digitalisation, finds it necessary to give one Cat-unit of digitalis for every ten pounds of the patient's body weight. The process of digitalisation can be
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