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_ than the author, to depend solely on its specific 
“power. This indeed, appears to have been the 
fact in reference to this very article, with which 
others have failed to do what has been effected 
under management of Dr. Dewees, and I may 
here add, in some few instances under my own, 
‘simply because they ‘neglected to prepare the 
system,” in other words, merely because they al- 
lowed to guaiacum a specific virtue it does not 
In order to form a correct estimate of the mode 
of operating pertaining to these remedies, it is | 
proper to notice the sympathizing morbid de- | 
rangement, mental and physical, which attends _ 
catamenial suppression or retention, the re- 
moving which must ever precede or follow a rein- 
stated functional regularity of the uterus. It is 
not denied, that though a state of general debility 
attends this irregularity of uterine function, that 
numerous cases occur in which a condition of the 
system the very opposite exists—a plethoric state 
of the blood-vessels, and rigid tone of the general 
system. ‘I'bis however, does not give rise to a cor- 
responding vigour of bodily health Buton the con- 
_ trary,aconcealed and enervating tendency to feeble 
action, lurks under this deceptive full toned habit, 
and shews itself on the slightest bodily exertion. 
However different then to appearance these oppo- 
site attending conditions of uterine derangement 
may be; and however different the method of 
cure most certainly is, U assume it as undeniable 
that the mental and nervous system is deeply 
involved in both. Hysteria in all its protean 
forms assails both. Mental despondency accom- 
panies both. Inshort, all those numberless moni- 
tions. which too faithfully announce that a general 
invasion of health has been accomplished, by the 
