I have been led to use Alumen quite extensively in a variety of ailments characterized by a most obstinate constipation, which had been existing for a long time. Some years ago a lady came to me suffering from very violent attacks of gastralgia, attended with nausea, vomiting, retching, etc., and unable to bear the least nourishment for ten days together. She also had most obstinate constipation, bowels moved once in ten days; feces dry, hard, black, sometimes large, sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with the greatest difficulty. Alumen 45m in a few days made her bowels regular and natural, and for several years she has had no return of her gastralgia. She still keeps the Alumen by her and at the first sign of the constipation she takes a few pellets, one dose, and it is all-sufficient. From a thin, spare, weakly woman, she has become plump and hearty.