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Materia Medica

Tonics

and many others speak of its beneficial effects = it was
supposed to act by its astringent properties.

Menorrhagia.* [footnote back 1 page] There are some cases of this disease depending on
debility in which Iron is usefull though it requires ease in
the administration of it, as this hemorrhage is seldom passive.

Hematuria. Or discharge of bloody urine, when
this disease is attended with debility or relaxation of the
kidneys, the Iron preparations are good and should be
administered with warm water or Chamomile tea which should
be given in large quantities, but as there are two species of
this disease = Viz the inflamitory or that arising from wounds,
contusions, Calculi, and that depending on debility or want
of tone in the vessels, we should be carefull to distinguish them,
as tonics would do harm in the first or inflamitory species,
in every case our practice should be regulated by the pulse.

Epistaxis. This is almost always active, and of
common the use of Iron would be improper = here bleeding and the
antiphlogistic plan is to be adhered to.

Hemoptysis. This in Ninety nine cases out of one hundred is of the active
kind and the preparations of Iron would be improper =