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Haplopappus  Baylaliuen. 
Arn.  Jour.  Pharm 
Aug.,  1891. 
There  are  only  two  works  in  which  any  reference  to  the  medicinal 
properties  of  this  drug  can  be  found  (Rusby,  Druggists'  Bulletin, 
441).  One  is  Historia  Fisica  y  Politico,  de  Chili,  Flora,  Tomo  iv.,  p. 
43,  where  it  is  stated  :  "  It  grows  in  the  high  ranges  of  Hardato 
(Province  of  Coquimbo).  The  peasants  use  it  to  cure  ulcers  of 
horses  and  other  animals."  The  other  work  is  Elementos  de 
Botanica  para  el  Uso  de  los  Estudiantes  de  Medicina  y  Farmacia  en 
Chili,  by  Dr.  R.  A.  Philippi,  p.  324,  in  which  the  following  state- 
ment may  be  found :  "  The  peasants  use  itf  in  the  diseases  of 
women  and  to  cure  ulcers  of  horses,"  etc. 
There  appeared,  as  before  noted,  in  the  Bulletin  General  de 
Therapeutique,  of  February  28,  1889,  p.  160,  a  paper  by  Dr.  G. 
Baille,  in  which  he  stated  that  Dr.  Dujardin-Beaumetz  had 
received  from  Dr.  Cervello,  of  Valparaiso,  Chili,  a  small  supply  of 
the  plant,  which  he  stated,  possessed  an  especial  action  in  certain 
gastro-intestinal  diseases,  especially  chronic  haemorrhages  of  the 
lower  bowel,  flatulent  dyspepsia,  indigestion,  etc. 
Dr.  Dujardin-Beaumetz  referred  the  drug  to  Dr.  Baille  for 
investigation.  The  latter  found  on  examination  of  the  drug  a  vola- 
tile and  a  fixed  oil,  the  latter  in  considerable  quantity,  and  having 
the  same  odor  which  characterizes  the  plant,  also  large  quantity  of 
a  brown  acid  viscous  resin,  which  possessed  the  odor  of  the  plant 
and  an  irritating  taste,  together  with  a  little  tannin  and  other 
ordinary  vegetable  constituents.  "  To  this  resin  and  oil  then,"  Dr. 
Baille  says,  "  we  must  refer  the  medicinal  properties  of  the  plant." 
As  to  the  properties  his  observations  are  given  in  full.  He  con- 
cludes as  follows :  "  Hysterionica  Baylahuen,  given  in  infusion,  is 
an  excellent  anti-diarrhceic  and  has  produced  in  the  hands  of  Dr. 
Cervello  excellent  effects  in  the  treatment  of  malarial  and  chronic 
dysentery.  The  results  obtained  by  us  in  the  treatment  of  diarrhoea 
of  phthisis,  led  us  to  test  its  employment  in  the  diarrhoeas  super- 
vening upon  the  course  of  certain  cachectic  maladies,  as  cancer,  and 
so  on.  The  infusion  of  Hysterionica,  perhaps,  permits  of  continued 
urgent  employment  of  a  medicament  like  copaiba  and  mercury  by 
suppressing  the  diarrhoea  which  these  occasion.  Hysterionica  can 
perhaps  replace  the  balsamics  and  other  applications  in  the  treat- 
ment of  the  respiratory  apparatus.  Given  in  the  form  of  an  alcoholic 
tincture  this  plant  does  not  produce  constipation.  Applied  to  the 
treatment  of  the  genito-urinary  apparatus,  it  appears  to  produce 
