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might be advantageously administered in cases of P plot Surely 
however, this practice does not promise any great advantage. The 
common means of managing those obstinate discharges, seem much 
more likely to be efficacious—and should they not prove so, there 
is little reasonable expectation of said good by the plant in eet 
tion, = me ee ee 
Dr. Barton’s suggestion that this plant is entitled to the at- 
tention of physicians in the treatment of nephritis, is not, perhaps, 
entitled to much weight. This suggestion was principally grounded 
on the supposed efficacy of Geranium Robertianum (Herb Robert) 
in that complaint.* ‘Even admitting that this plant has performed 
_ all the effects attributed to it, it does not follow that the species 
‘under consideration would prove similarly beneficial ; for the Gera- 
nium Robertianum, besides being an astringent, is obviously endued 
with other virtues,—it is powerfully diuretic. 
‘It is said that Geranium maculatum has been collected in Ken- 
tucky, where it is called Crow-foot, for Tormentil (Tormentilla 
erecta) and vended in ‘the shops of druggists there, for that article ; 
\ ently or from ignorance I know not, but most pro- 
z ably the es. since the Liens bears no o kind of resemblance 
* In North Wales this plant has sana celebrity, as a remedy for nephritic 
complaints. A handful of the dried leaves is recommended to be infused as tea, anda 
tea-cup full taken occasionally. Mr. Watt. Wm. Withering, Esq. 
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