ON MONESIA. 
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in the scorbutic swelling of deseased gums, and it has remov- 
ed affections which had previously resisted other remedies. 
When caries of the teeth is attended with pain, the applica- 
tion of monesia is sure to remove it in a few moments." 
When all the ascertained facts are compared together, one 
is struck by the very peculiar tonic action of monesia on every 
organ. As its powers have been tried in more than four 
hundred cases, we may be allowed to consider monesia as a 
very useful remedy, under several circumstances, particularly 
scrofulous affections and uterine haemorrhage. Hence to the 
art of healing it is a real acquisition; nor is it to be imagined 
that this tonic has any analogy with those already known re- 
quite lately a tannin ointment, and monesia ointment were 
tried and compared with each other, and the advantage was 
on the side of the latter. Moreover, it is clear that every 
medicine acts in its own way, and that there cannot be two 
whose special effects are the same. Well informed practi- 
tioners know that one purgative cannot be indifferently sub- 
stituted for another; that every narcotic has not, in the same 
degree, the power of soothing and producing sleep ; that the 
action of the various tonics is also very different ; and that 
the general effects of medicines are like the difference of faces; 
many resemble each other at the first glance, but none cansus- 
tain an exact comparison. 
The London, from Paris Medical Gazette. 
♦There is some mistake in the original here : " que Ton ne croie pas 
que ce tonique ait quelque analogie avec ceux deja connus;" for, granting 
that its effects are not identical with those of any other tonic, there is a 
well marked anology. — Translator. 
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