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EXAMINATION OF THE BARK OF MONESIA. 
dryness, and redissolve the residue by means of cold water, 
to which a little animal charcoal is added. By filtering, and 
bringing it to the dry state again, by means of the salt bath, a 
yellow friable product is obtained, which, when reduced to 
powder, constitutes Monesine; with this powder can be 
prepared all the medical formulae, as pills, syrup, pom- 
made, &c. 
Medical Employment. 
From the information furnished by chemical analysis, and 
from the observations made upon healthy subjects, and espe- 
cially from the knowledge of the diseases in which the na- 
tives of the country where Monesia grows employ this sub- 
stance, it, in the first place, has been employed in affections 
characterized by general or local atony, sanguine or serous 
discharges, and it is only by analogy that it has been tried 
finally in other diseases. 
Administered by the stomach, Monesia has been useful in 
haemoptysis, menorrhagia, debility of stomach, dysentery, 
scorbutic disease, scrofula, and especially diarrhoea. It has 
been tried with various results, in bronchitis, phthisis, leucor- 
rhoea, enteritis, &c. 
The topical employment of Monesia has produced advan- 
tageous results in ulcers of different parts of the skin, and of 
different characters. It has succeeded in stomatitis, oph- 
thalmia, haemorrhoids, fissures of the anus, ulcerated chil- 
blains, &c. 
As regards the mode of administration, the extract of Mo- 
nesia is given in the dose of 16 to 24 grs. daily in ordinary 
cases ; in more rebellious cases, as menorrhagia, and profuse 
diarrhoea, it may be necessary to give from 40 to 60 grs.; 
finally, in constitutional affections, as scrofula, it is requisite 
to augment progressively the dose during thirty or forty 
days, and to attain four grammes or more of the extract 
daily. 
Monesine has heretofore been administered, but once inter- 
nally in the dose of 16 centigrammes; and externally it has 
