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Materia Medica

Tonic

a gleet of however long standing = the carbonate of Iron in
this disease is the most efficacious.

Amenorrhea. Or Suppression of the menses, this depends upon two causes,
first upon a considerable tone of the vessels attended with
increased fever and frequency of the pulse, pain in the head, back
and loins, with wild starting eyes every time the menses ought
to appear = and secondly upon debility of the system generally
or a debility of the ovary vessels, the last is the most frequent,
cases, of the menses in the first species, Iron would do much harm
and increase the complaint particularly in some cases of
Febris Alba. For here bleeding, and purging, ought to
be employ'd = but in the second species or that depending on debility,
the preparations of Iron are of manifest service, and should
never be omitted; when combined with savin the Iron proves
more usefull = the preparations of Iron in a metallic or oxid
state are the most useful.

Hemorrhage. These as
I have already observed are of two kinds active and passive,
in the former the preparations of this mineral is always
injurious, but in the latter they are always serviceable, the use of
Iron in Hemorrhagies is of Antient [ancient] date, Pliny the naturalist