In hemorrhage of the stomach, one-half to one-drachm doses will often relieve when all other agents have failed.
Where there is pain and distress from gastric ulcers, Geranium will relieve, and in many instances, cure the trouble. In cases of pulmonary hemorrhages it is the remedy, in doses of a drachm; after its action has been established, it may be given in doses of ten to fifteen drops, three or four times a day, to guard against the hemorrhages returning.
In consumption it will modify the night-sweats and cough, and control the diarrhoea that is so annoying and always weak-
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ening to the patient.
In the treatment of chronic bronchitis, by its action in condensing the relaxed bronchial membrane, we check the cough and profuse expectoration, and thereby strengthen the patient.
In the weakened stomach of hard drinkers we find an admirable place for Geranium. In such cases, Capsicum should be added to it. Chronic gonorrhoea and gleet are cured by the local injection of a ten to twenty-five per cent solution. It is valuable in the treatment of sore mouth, either mercurial or from other cause. Use diluted as a wash and give internally. In the treatment of leucorrhcea, where there is a relaxed and atonic condition, make a tampon of surgical wool, and after saturating with the full-strength extract, push well up against the uterus. In uterine catarrh and relaxed conditions it is a splendid remedy. In prolapsus of the bowels, wet the protruding parts with the strong non-alcoholic fluid and inject twenty-five per cent solution into the bowels three or four times a week. The same treatment will cure many cases of recent hemorrhoids. It is excellent for nasal polypi by injecting them with the tincture. The polypoid growth will degenerate and drop out after a time.—Drs. Comfort and Lyle.
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