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t. That of forty-two soldiers attacked with diarrhoea, of 
different degrees of severity; thirty-six were cured in twelve 
days; twenty-four by the extract of monesia, given in pills, 
in the dose of from eighty centigrammes, to a gramme (14| 
to I8i grains) a day; and twelve by the tincture, administer- 
ed as a clyster, in the dose of eight grammes (147§ grains) 
in two hundred and fifty grammes (4607§ grains) of bran 
water. 
2. That in two cases of menorrhagia, the extract and the 
tincture of monesia, given internally, soon calmed the pain, 
and stopped the uterine discharge. 
3. That in four women attacked with profuse leucorrhoea, 
the extract of monesia given internally, and the diluted tinc- 
ture injected into the vagina, were beneficial. 
4. That in two cases of haemoptysis, where bleeding, liga- 
ture of the limbs, and ordinary astringents, had been employ- 
ed without advantage, the extract of monesia succeeded com- 
pletely ; and that several chronic cases of bronchorrhcea were 
benefited by the syrup of monesia, which was sometimes 
combined with opium. 
M. Baron cities — 1. A very remarkable case of chronic in- 
flammation of the vagina, of a syphilitic kind. No advantage 
had attended the previous use of baths, local bleedings, emol- 
lient and astringent injections, the nitrate of silver ; a year 
later, the diluted supernitrate of mercury, sulphurous baths, 
leeches, and the repeated application of blisters and sinapisms, 
were equally useless. In spite of these remedies, the dis- 
charge from the vagina became more abundant. Injections 
were then used containing thirty grammes (552 grains and 
T 9 ^ths) of the extract of monesia in a hundred and fifty gram- 
mes (2764§ grains) of water. In eight days the discharge 
was much diminished, and in three weeks the patient was 
cured. The discharge returned in a month, but again yield- 
ed to the same injections, 
2. A case of leucorrhoea. The discharge was copious, of a 
yellowish-white color, and accompanied with pains in the 
groins and lumbar regions; baths, leeches, and injections of 
