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the imported extract, according to MM. Bernard Derosne 
and 0. Henry, has demonstrated the presence of the following 
soluble principles: — 1, chlorophylle; 2, vegetable wax; 3, a 
fatty and crystallizable matter ; 4, glycyrrhizine; 5, an acrid 
and somewhat bitter substance; 6, a little tannin; 7, an unex- 
amined organic acid; 8, a red coloring matter, resembling 
that of cinchona; 9, phosphates of lime, with organic acids. 
The pharmaceutical preparations which have been made 
with this substance are — 1, an aqueous extract; 2, a syrup, 
containing thirty centigrammes, (5i grains) in the ounce; 3, 
a hydro-alcoholic tincture, containing two grammes (37 grains) 
per ounce; 4, chocolate, containing thirty centigrammes (5i 
grains) in each cake, weighing three decagrammes (7 drachms, 
49 grains;) 5, an ointment, containing an eighth part of its 
weight of extract; 6, monesine, being the acrid substance men- 
tioned in the analysis. 
The extract contains about eight per cent, of glycyrrhizine, 
and twenty per cent, of acrid matter. 
The following accounts of monesia are already in existence: 
1; A manuscript memoir, which is in the hands of the com- 
missioners appointed by the Academy of Medicine. 2. A 
synoptical table, giving the analysis, some pharmaceutical 
preparations, and the medicinal preparations, of monesia. 3. 
A very minute summary of these two papers, entitled, "Ac- 
count of Monesia." 4. An article inserted in the Bulletin 
Therapeutique. 
I will now give a succinct account of the facts which have 
been published, before mentioning the results which I have 
obtained, myself. 
The medical cases in the synoptic table have been drawn 
up by several physicians in Paris; they give the nature of the 
disease, the sex, the profession, the age, and the constitution 
of the patient; the mode of treatment, and duration of the 
disease, the termination; and, lastly, the remarks suggested 
by each method of treatment. 
M. Alquie, professor of internal pathology at the Val-de- 
Grace, found— 
