Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies, Volume 2Boericke & Tafel, 1875 |
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Page 381 - No remedy with which we are acquainted, is more to be relied upon in chronic affections of the mucous surfaces. Its value in this respect is peculiarly apparent in chronic dysentery and diarrhoea and other diseases of the bowels. When false membranous formations have occurred in the smaller intestines, produced by the gradual exudation of plastic lymph, the Leptandra may be relied upon for their removal, with great confidence.
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