REPORT ON NEW FERRUGINOUS PILLS. 
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urine of a female laboring under chlorosis, before any treat- 
ment; but when the patient had made use of the pills of iron, 
and when the progress of the disease towards cure had been 
established, he observed that the iron was diminished in the 
urine, without the proportion having returned to the natural 
state. If new analyses should confirm the first observation, 
they would show that, in proportion as the blood becomes 
impoverished, one"of its essential elements, iron, is eliminated 
by the urinary passages. 
" The second observation refers to the passage of iron into 
the milk; M. Vallet, who did not find iron in the milk of 
women in health, has observed it in appreciable proportion 
and by the same chemical means, in the milk of a woman 
placed under treatment with carbonate of iron. This fact may 
be of some importance in the treatment of infants at the breast; 
it is still a single one, and calls for new trials; yet we can 
assure the Academy, that MM. Henry and Chevallier have 
given the ferruginous preparation to she-asses, and have 
ascertained that the iron passed into the milk. 
To conclude: chemico-pharmaceutic observation is favor- 
able to the new preparation of M. Vallet, presented to the 
Academy; and medical observations, although as yet few, also 
promise happy results. 
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