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Excerpt from The Calcutta Journal of Medicine, Vol. 25: April 1906 Allen remarks: Bone pains following gonorrhoea, or after the use of mercury, worse in dampness. Pareira says: Its continued use is often attended with improvement of appetite and digestion, augmentation of strength, increase of flesh, the production of a more healthy tone of mind, and the palliation, or, in some cases, the complete disappearance of various morbid symptoms - as eruptions, ulcerations, pains of a rheumatic character, etc. It is not adapted for the cure of intermittents or of simple debility. But its efl'ects are seen in those depraved conditions of the system, which the public, and even some medical men, ascribe to the presence of a morbid poison, or to a deranged condition of the fluids. Hence, it is frequently denominated a purifier of blood. Those who do not adopt the pathological notion here referred to, call it an alterative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.