. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). to water and to alcohol. ROSA GALLICA. 135 Geranium is used in the same cases as other astringents; and, owingto its being devoid of bitterness, or other disagreeable flavour, it isadapted for infants, or for adults whose stomachs are Fig. 153. delicate. It is sometimesused as an astringent injec-tion in chronic diarrhoeaand dysentery, leucorrhoea,&c, and as a wash in mer-curial ptyalism, and to in-dolent ulcers. The dose ofthe powder is gr. xx. to 3ss.;but it is rarely given. Itis most commonly pre-scribed i
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). to water and to alcohol. ROSA GALLICA. 135 Geranium is used in the same cases as other astringents; and, owingto its being devoid of bitterness, or other disagreeable flavour, it isadapted for infants, or for adults whose stomachs are Fig. 153. delicate. It is sometimesused as an astringent injec-tion in chronic diarrhoeaand dysentery, leucorrhoea,&c, and as a wash in mer-curial ptyalism, and to in-dolent ulcers. The dose ofthe powder is gr. xx. to 3ss.;but it is rarely given. Itis most commonly pre-scribed in decoction, (; Aquas, Oiss; coque adOj. Dose, f sj. to f^ij.) Itis occasionally given boiledin milk to children. ]3. GRANATI FRUCTUS COR-TEX.— FOMEGRANATE RIND. This is the rind of thefruit of Punica granatum,already referred to. ( 247.) It is met with inthe shops, in irregular,arched, dry, brittle pieces,which are devoid of odour,very astringent and slightlybitter; of a brown colourexternally, and yellow with-in. It contains about 19per cent, of tannic Pomegranate Geranium maculatum. rind hasbeen used as an astringent,chiefly in the form of decoction,—(Granat. fruct. cort. 3ij.; Aquce ; boil to a pint. Dose, f 3j.;)—in chronic diarrhoea and dysentery;and in the colliquative sweats of hectic fever. It has, likewise, beenprescribed as an astringent injection in leucorrhoea; as a gargle in re-laxed sore throat, and as a wash in loose flabby ulcers,—in the verycases in which astringents in general are indicated,—but it is not muchused on this side of the Atlantic. The powdered rind has been givenin the dose of gr. xx. to 5ss. and more. 14. ROSA GAI/LICA.— RED ROSES. The petals of Rosa Gallica,—red, French or Provins rose, Sex. Polygynia; Nat. Ord. Kosaceoe—a native of the south of 136 SPECIAL ASTRINGENTS. Europe, but introduced into tlie gardens of the United States—is ex-tensively cultivated for medicinal pur
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