180 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
“An honourable and noteworthy rank as an auxiliary remedy 
in miasmatic fevers is all that can be claimed for the preparations 
of Eucalyptus. The statement that Eucalyptus asserts its antipyretic 
character also in the thermal elevations of tuberculosis and cancer 
appears, if true, to us all the more noteworthy, as its virtues in this 
direction have been most generally overlooked. 
“Important as the antimiasmatic and general antipyretic 
properties of Eucalyptus unquestionably are, it is in the laryngeal 
and bronchial inflammatory affections that the drug renders its 
most signal service. Its action in this respect rivals turpentine and 
tar, and offers even advantages in being better borne by the 
digestive organs, and being easier administrable. 
“Dr. Gimpert, of Cannes, the celebrated consumptive specialist, 
believes it to be of benefit in tubercular disease, but warns, how- 
ever, against exhibiting the drug in too large doses, lest hemoptysis 
should set in.” (Za France Medicale, loc. ctt.) 
The value of Eucalyptus oil in the various catarrhal affections 
of the urino-genital apparatus is likewise great. 
Dr. Owen reports in the Australian Medical Fournal of 
15th September, 1885, the case of a child, 17 months old, which was 
poisoned by drinking a few drops of Eucalyptus extract out of a 
supposed empty bottle. The symptoms were alarming, but the 
patient recovered under proper treatment. 
Throughout the colonies. 
PLANTING OF EucaLyptus Forests. 
(See also “ TrmpBers.’’) 
Monsieur Ramel is to be credited with having first suggested the 
idea of planting Eucalyptus trees in Europe, with the view of 
thus ridding territory from baneful marsh and malarial fevers. 
The same object led to its cultivation at the Cape. It was this 
ingenious transplantation of species of this genus to the vicinity 
of Rome, that enabled the Trappists of Tre-Fontane to recover 
and render habitable a vast area formerly exposed to the ravages 
of malaria. It is highly probable that the disinfectant power of 
the tree depends largely upon its capacity of absorbing large 
