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Apothecary Bottle, ESS HELENI
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This square-shaped glass drug jar is marked <i>ESS HELENI</i>. Heleni or Helenium refers to Enula Campana an herb with a yellow flower. In medicinal preparations the root of the plant is used to make tea for coughs as a diuretic, expectorant, and as a tonic.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineApothecary Bottle, ESS HELENI. 17th-18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
