ON MONESIA. 
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M. Manec has employed the different preparations of mo- 
nesia with success: — 
1. In a man who, for six years, had had a large herpiginous 
ulcer in the bend of the groin, which had resisted every kind 
of treatment, and which rapidly improved under the use of 
monesia ointment. 
2. In a great number of aged women, laboring under diar- 
rhoea, and in persons affected with chronic bronchitis. 
M. Monod has furnished some very interesting cases; some, 
of ulcers of the nose, and others of affections of the intestinal 
canal. — The ulcers were dressed with the powdered extract, 
and cured in a few days. In the other cases, the extract given 
in pills to the amount of sixty to a hundred and twenty centi- 
grammes (11 to 22 grains) daily, was perfectly successful. 
M. Payen, who has employed monesia in a great number of 
cases, has seen a patient in whom leucorrhoea was considerably 
increased by this medicine, administered two different times; 
the monesia was then tried as an injection, and the discharge, 
which had hitherto resisted every remedy, disappeared, and 
did not return. The same practitioner cites two cases of ute- 
rine haemorrhage, where the patients were obliged to keep 
their bed for a fortnight at each menstrual period, and in which 
the monesia brought back the discharge to its healthy standard. 
Lastly, M. Payen has succeeded in cicatrizing an ulcer in the 
lower jaw, which for ten months had resisted every kind of 
treatment, both internal and external ; and in healing ulcer- 
ated chilblains, by means of the ointment and the powdered 
extract of monesia. 
Thus we see that monesia has been employed both exter- 
nally and internally. It has been frequently administered dur- 
ing the chronic stage of bronchitis, usually alone, but some- 
times combined with opium, and in the greatest number of 
cases it has seemed to act advantageously upon the disease, 
the expectoration and respiration being rendered more easy. 
In many cases where pulmonary haemorrhage was prolonged, 
having resisted various and generally efficacious remedies, 
the extract of monesia has stopped the spitting of blood. 
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