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Calcarea Carbonica—Common Chalk.—This is an important homœopathic remedy. The dose is one decillionth of a grain, and the effects last fifty days. The following are the affections in which it is employed, as laid down in Jahr's Manual, Vol. I., pages 119, 120.

"Indications derived from the ensemble of symptoms: For persons of a plethoric or lymphatic constitution, with a disposition to Menorrhagia, cold in the head, and diarrhœa; or else for individuals of a weak, sickly constitution. Sufferings caused by a chill in the water: Different affections of children and of women who have copious catamenia: Evil effects from lifting a weight; Suffering arising from abuse of cinchona; Sufferings of drunkards: Gouty nodosities and other arthritic complaints: St. Vitus' dance?; Epileptic convulsions (after the action