COMMON CRANESBILL, 89 
ture forms an excellent local application in sore 
throats and ulcerations of the mouth. 
Its internal use has been recommended in dys- 
entery and cholera infantum, but astringents are 
not always admissible in these complaints, at least 
in their early stages, during the existence of much 
active inflammation, or during the presence of any 
substance requiring to be removed. 
The Geranium may be used in powder in ex- 
tract, or in tincture. Its doses are similar to 
those of kino and catechu, a:‘drachm or two of 
the tincture, twenty or thirty grains of the pow- 
der, and a quantity somewhat less of the extract, 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Geranium maculatum, Sp. pl. WiiipEnow, iii. 705.—Grono- 
vius, Virg. 101.—Watrer, Carol. 175.—MicuHavx, ii. 38.— 
Porsn, ii. 448.—G, caule erecto, herbaceo, foliis oppositis, quin- 
que partitis, incisis &c. Cavantugs, diss, t. 86, f. 2,—G. batra- 
chioides, Americanum, maculatum, floribus obsolete ceruleis, 
Duuu. Elth. 158. t. 131, f. 159. 
MEDICAL REFERENCES, 
Sener, 107.—Barr. Coll. 7,—Curier, Mem. Amer. Acad, 
i. 469.—Tuacuer, Disp. 224. 
PLATE VIII. 
Fig. 1. Geranium maculatum, 
Fig. 2. The fruit. rsa 
Fig. 3. The root. 
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