178 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
In the Aust. Journ. of Pharm. for May, 1887, occurs the 
statement that a miner at Kimberley, Western Australia, cured 
himself of scurvy by making a decoction of the leaves of a 
““White Gum.” What species of Eucalyptus is alluded to I can- 
not guess at. 
The dose of Eucalyptus leaves is given in Martindale and 
Westcott’s Extra Pharmacopeia at five grains or more, in powder. 
When coarsely powdered, they are employed for smoking in 
cigarettes in cardiac and aneurismal asthma. 
The following references are obtained from the same source : 
History of the drug, its uses and botanical origin. Is a febri- 
fuge; the leaves are also employed as a healing application to 
wounds. (Medical Timesand Gazette, i.,1874,540. Pharm. Fourn. 
1874, 872; 1879, 865.) Ague, rapid cure of, by one to two 
drachm doses of the tincture. (Practitioner xviii., 366.) 
In ozcena, bronchitis with profuse foul expectoration, and 
uterine catarrh, tincture and infusion used both internally and 
externally (Pr. xx., 206). 
Tincture used in intermittent fever (Pr. xx., 411; xxiv., 138). 
Use of steam from the infusion of leaves in infectious 
diseases, especially diphtheria (Zancet, i., 1883, 316). 
A correspondent writes to the Zown and Country Fournal, 
Sydney, that there is a remedy for the ills of the poultry yard 
always at hand in the gum trees around it. He says :— For 
diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera in fowls, get a quantity of 
Eucalyptus leaves (white or blue gum; I have used both), dry the 
leaves sufficiently to make them brittle, crush, and make into pills 
with the aid of a little bread or dough. Put as much of the 
powder (z.e., crushed or powdered leaves) as you can lift with a 
shilling into each pill. Give one to each fowl affected, and if 
necessary repeat the dose next day. I have not had a single 
death among my fowls since I used the foregoing remedy. I lost 
seventeen in two days with cholera, and the four I saved out of 
the twenty-one I had could not stand when I gave them the pills. 
They are now fine healthy birds. I have recommended the 
remedy to several people, and in no case has there been a single 
failure. I lost at the same time a collection of Australian .parrots 
