264 Effects of Geranium Maculatum 



fects, I with pleasure hasten to comply with your re- 

 quest. 



Before I enter upon the subject, however, I beg 

 leave to remark, that this vegetable has never failed to 

 operate as a styptic in my hands ; and, from what I 

 have seen of its efficacy, I can affirm, that, in point of 

 utility, it is inferior to nothing but the ligature. I have 

 always used the Geranium in epistaxis and the extirpa- 

 tion of tumours, with complete success. 



I shall now give you a cursory and succinct account 

 of three cases, in which I had an opportunity of fully 

 trying its salutary virtues ; and, should you think them 

 unworthy of your notice, I hope that you will consign 

 them to oblivion. 



CASE I. 



Having undergone no inconsiderable degree of fa- 

 tigue, in the Alms-House and House of Employment, 

 in the city of Philadelphia, I was attacked with a very 

 •severe pain about my rectum, which ultimately termi- 

 nated in a copious discharge of blood, from the hae- 

 morrhoidal vessels. In vain did I give my disease a 

 " lancet-chase ;" in vain did I resort to the use of lax- 

 ative medicines. Finding that it proceeded not from an 

 excessive action of the arterial system, as I had at first 

 supposed, I resolved upon trying the effects of the 

 galls: but having my expectation baffled in the latter, 

 as well as in the former experiment, I determined upon 

 using the Geranium maculatum. Accordingly, I look 

 rhree drams of the dried root, and boiled them in a pint 



