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from the same complaint, and it was by observing a flock of 
parrots on a white gum tree that I found out the remedy. I have 
not lost a single parrot since. I give any parrot ailing a little 
powdered leaf ina tube, inserting one end into the throat of the 
bird, and blowing the powder into it. Put a few leaves into the 
cage for themto eat. Finally, I may add that I have taken a large 
pill, composed of the blue gum, for a very severe attack of 
dysentery, which proved effectual, and the best remedy I have 
everused. I have beenaseveresufferer. I think the Eucalyptus is 
nature’s remedy for the foregoing complaints, and is worth trying.” 
* In France, five different Eucalyptus preparations are in use. 
1. A tincture made by an alcoholic maceration of the fresh 
leaves. 
2. A tincture obtained from the dry leaves by the same process. 
3. An alcoholic extract. 
4. A wine. 
5. A liniment prepared from the essence (s7c). 
“Tt is interesting to note that the preparations used in 
Italy against the marsh fevers in Rome and its vicinity all come 
from a place called Tre-Fontane, and have the form of a highly 
concentrated ethereal extract, and an alcoholic elixir.” (See £. 
globulus, ““Timbers.”’) 
“If a few drops of an Eucalyptus preparation are placed on 
the tongue, a sensation of pungent freshness, soon followed by 
one of warmth, is experienced, the latter being due to a hyper- 
secretion of the salivary and buccal glands. Its ingestion into the 
stomach creates a similar sensation of warmth, and, besides, an 
emission of its characteristic odour by the mouth. The urine 
reveals a faintly violet colouration, indicating the passage of the 
drug through the system. . . . Larger doses of the drug pro- 
duce headache, malaise, general fatigue and prostration, and even, 
as shown by Gimpert, fatal results in animals, by paralysing the 
reflex motor centres of the spinal cord.” (Za France Medicale, 
Nos. 43-5, 1885, quoted in Therapeutic Gazette. (See also 
eeils.””) 
* Some of these preparations were actually on sale at the recent Adelaide Jubilee 
International Exhibition. This is taking coals to Newcastle with a vengeance, 
