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Rh ; Sterility; Abortion; Cutting pains, too long continued after accouchement; Weakness, falling out of the hair, and other complaints of parturient women; Odontalgia of pregnant women; Milk fever; Excoriation of the breasts; Galactorrhoea or agalactia; Ophthalmia, muscular weakness and acidity in nurses; Chronic laryngitis with ulceration; Chronic catarrh and blenorrhœa of the lungs; Phthisical symptoms (tuberculous phthisis); Curvature of the spine: Coxalgia; Spontaneous dislocation; Gout in the hands and in the feet, &c. &c."

Here, then, are one hundred and twenty-five diseases or conditions, some acute and some chronic, differing as far as possible in their etiology and pathology, all to be cured or relieved by the decillionth of a grain of chalk. Carbonate of lime is one of the most abundant natural productions, and is found in a great variety of conditions. In its solid state it forms a considerable part of the crust of the globe, and in solution it is found to exist to some extent in almost all water. The best wells and purest springs hold more or less of it in solution; it is even sometimes discovered in rain water. He