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Gallic add in menorrfwgia. — Professor Simpson stated, that for 
the last year he had employed gallic acid in some cases of menorrhagia, 
with the most successful results. Like all the other remedies directed 
against that disease, it had also occasionally failed in his hands. Some 
of the cases which had completely yielded under its use, were of an old 
standing, and aggravating description. He gave it during the intervals, 
as well as during the discharge, in doses of from ten to twenty grains 
per day, made into pills. It had this advantage over most other anti- 
hemorrhagic medicines, that it had no constipating effect upon the bow- 
els. He was first induced to use it, from finding a case of very obstinate 
menorrhagia get well under the use of Ruspini's styptic, after many 
other remedies had utterly failed, and from it being alleged that gallic 
acid was the active ingredient in that styptic. He suggested whether 
the anti-hemorrhagic properties of some of our common astringent drugs 
may not depend upon the gallic acid as much or more than upon the 
tannin which they contain, or upon the tannin becoming changed into 
gallic acid within the body. 
Dr. Douglas Maclaclan mentioned, that in one case where he had tried 
it without success, it had acted as a diuretic. 
London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science, July, 1843. 
Jlnti-Epileptic Pills. 
R Aqueous extract of opium - - 5 centigr. 
Acetate of lead 20 ,, 
Powder of hyosciamus - - 40 „ 
Gum syrup - - q, s. 
M. and F, S. A., a perfectly homogeneous mass, divided into eight pills 
of equal size, rolled in powdered orange leaves. 
These pills are prescribed by Professor Recamier in cases of epilepsy. 
He directs one to be taken in the morning, and the other in the evening. 
We follow up this formula with that which Dr. Leuret prescribes in 
the same cases, and of which he has had opportunity of proving the 
efficacy. 
R Extract of stramonium 1 gramme. 
Extract of belladonna 1 „ 
Camphor - ... - 50 centigr. 
Opium 
M and F. S. A., a homogeneous mass, to be divided into pills of 10 
decigr. 
One of these pills is taken per diem, at the commencement, and the 
dose is progressively increased, according to the effects produced, until 
it amounts to 15 and even 20 in the course of 24 hours. 
London Chemist, from Gazette de Sante. 
