150 INULA HELENIUM 



which exists in much larger quantity, is the anhydride of an acid 

 called inulic acid. 



Medical Properties and Uses. Elecampane has been regarded 

 as an aromatic tonic ; and also as diaphoretic, diuretic, expec- 

 torant, and emmenagogue. It was formerly highly valued, but it 

 is now but rarely employed except in veterinary practice. It has 

 been prescribed in chronic catarrh, and in dyspepsia attended 

 with relaxation and debility; and in the United States it has 

 been also highly recommended both for external use and internal 

 administration, in tetter, psora, and other diseases of the skin. 



Elecampane is one of the substances used in France and 

 Switzerland in the preparation of Absinthej a liqueur which is 

 described under Artemisia Absinthium. 



Per. Mat. Med., vol.ii, pt. 2, p. 16 ; Steph. & Church., Med. Bot., 

 by Burnett, vol. i, pi. 49; Pharrnacographia, p. 340; U. S. 

 Disp., by "W. & B., p. 479; Gmelin's Chemistry, vol. xvii, 

 p. 522 ; Kallen, in Berichte der Deutsclien Chemischen Gesell- 

 schaft, 1874, p. 1506; Dragendorff, Materialien zu einer 

 Monographic des Inulins, St. Petersburg, 1870; Prantl's 

 Inulin, in Pharm. Journ., vol. ii, 3rd ser., p. 262; Pharm. 

 Journ., 3rd ser., vol. vii, p. 156. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



i 

 Brawn from a specimen in Kew Gardens. 



1. Upper part of a flowering stem. 



2. Section of a flower-head. 



3. A disk flower. 



4. Section of the same. 



5. A ray -flower. 



6. The stamens. 



7. A stamen, more enlarged. 



8. 9. Fruit. 



10. Yertical, and 11. Transverse section of the same. 

 (2-11 magnified.) 



