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mallow water and laudanum, had produced no benefit. In- 
jections of monesia, in the proportion of thirty grammes (562 
grains and T 9 T ths) to a hundred grammes (3317^ grains) of 
water, were employed once a day, and the patient was cured 
in a fortnight. 
3. Several cases of diarrhoea, which resisted the means ge- 
nerally used, were cured by the extract of monesia given in- 
ternally, and clysters containing the tincture, in different pro- 
portions. 
M. Buchez has employed the extract of monesia, and has 
remarked, that it delayed the progress of caries in the teeth, 
and that when combined with opium it often soothed the pain 
more effectually than the opium alone. He recommends the 
employment of the tincture to keep the gums in a healthy 
state. 
M. Daynac speaks of the good effects he has obtained from 
the preparations of monesia (the syrup, lozenges, and paste) 
in several cases of the chronic catarrh of the old, in dyspeptic 
persons, and in the third stage of phthisis. He also cites re- 
markable cases of scrofulous engorgement, much benefited 
by the use of the tincture of monesia, in the dose of eight 
grammes (147i grains) daily, continued for a greater or less 
time. Lastly, the extract of monesia in pills, in the dose of 
sixty to ninety centigrammes (11 to 1 6i grains,) has been 
very serviceable in uterine discharges. 
M. Laurand speaks of a well marked case of scurvy which 
he cured with monesia. The patient had had frequent epis- 
taxis, which had several times required the nostrils to be plug- 
ged. He was made to inspire acidulated water by the nostrils, 
containing thirty grammes (552 grains and T 9 oths) of the 
tincture to a pound of water. This stopped the haemorrhage; 
but when the same thing had been done with acidulated water 
not containing monesia, it had not succeeded. The patient 
also took from a gramme to a gramme and a half (18^ to 271 
grains) internally, every day. The same physician has ascer- 
tained the efficacy of monesia in a great variety of circum- 
stances, particularly in gangrenous eschars on the sacrum. 
