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In weakness of the stomach, monesia has a very favorable 
influence on digestion, and secondarily on nutrition. This 
medicine has also been very beneficial in chronic enteritis; it 
has chiefly succeeded against diarrhoea, from whatever cause 
it arose. 
The efficacy of monesia taken internally has been less 
marked in leucorrhcea than in diarrhoea; yet it has been useful 
in the majority of patients who have taken it; but injections 
have been more advantageous. 
In every case of uterine haemorrhage where monesia has 
been given, it has succeeded in moderating and suppressing 
the discharge more readily than the other remedies which had 
been previously used. 
Monesia has also been of great advantage in scorbutic and 
scrofulous affections, and has always benefited ulcers of a bad 
character, whether the ointment, or the pure extract powdered, 
or the acrid substance contained in it, has been employed. 
Such is the compendium of the cases hitherto published, 
with the exception of four by M. Forget, which are the basis 
of the article that he has published in the Bulletin Thera- 
peutique, and which, as he says himself, neither tell for nor 
against monesia. 
We may say, therefore, generally, that monesia shows its 
maximum of power in diseases of the digestive organs, in hae- 
moptysis, uterine haemorrhage, and ulcers of the skin, or of 
the mucous membranes, at their origin. A remarkable point 
in this remedy is, that although it is gifted with energetic 
powers, and has acted upon the tonsils or upon ulcerations as 
an active stimulant, it has never irritated the stomach as to- 
nics, properly so called, often do. In order to form a due es- 
timate of its relative activity, we must not forget that it has 
always been employed after the exhibition of other remedies. 
I now come to my own cases, the general results of which 
may be stated as follows: — 
Monesia, when exhibited internally, in the dose of from 75 
to 125 centigrammes (14 to 23 grains) of the extract daily, for 
eight or ten days, whether in the form of pill, tincture, or 
