66 ORD. II. Composite. INULA HELENIUM, 
with water, possesses the bitterness and pungency of the root, but 
in a less degree than that made with spirit.” 
The high opinion entertained by the ancients of the virtues of 
Elecampane may be collected from the words of Schréder, who 
says, “ Abstergit, discutit, aperit, pulmonica est. Stomachica, alexi- 
pharmaca, sudorifera, &c. Usus precip. in tartaro pulmonum 
renumque attenuando, ac educendo, & hinc in tussi, asthmate, in 
cruditatibus ventriculi emendandis, ureteribus reserandis, in pesie, 
contagiosisque morbis arcendis, in scabie.” Bergius also ascribes 
many Virtues to this root, and from its sensible and chemical 
qualities it promises to be a medicine of some efficacy; but in the 
diseases in which it is principally recommended, as dyspepsia, pul- 
monary affections, and uterine obstructions, we have no satisfactory 
evidence of its medicinal powers.* One dram of this root in infusion, 
and from two drams to half an ounce in decoction, is said to be the 
dose usually given. 
4 P, 602. See Alston's M. M. voli. p. 454. 
© See Cullen’s Mf. M. vol. i, p. 459. 
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TANACETUM VULGARE. COMMON TANSY. 
SYNONYMA.. Tanacetum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Raii Hist. 
p. 365. Synop. p. 188. Gerard Emac. p. 659. Tanacetum 
vulgare luteum. Bauh. Pin. p. 132. Tanacetum vulgare. Park. 
Theat. p. 80. Hudson Fl. Ang. p. 357. Withering. Bot. Arrang: 
p. 887. Flor. Dan. p. 871. Smith. 862. Tanacetum foliis pin- 
natis, pinnis semipinnatis, acute dentatis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 132. 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 944. 
Ess, Gen. Ch. Recept. nudum Pappus submarginatus. Cal. im~ 
bricatus, hemisphericus. Cor. radii obsoletie, 3-fidx. 
Sp. Ch. TT. foltis bipinnatis incisis serratis, 
