i 5 4 EUCALYPTUS. 



Eucalyptus is powerfully antiseptic and anti-malarial. Mixed with 

 albumen and fresh fibrine, its essential oil, Eucalyptol, prevents decom- 

 position, and animal tissue treated with it ma} 7 be dried and mummified 

 by simple exposure to' the air. The tree has wonderful anti-miasmatic 

 properties. Planted in marshy districts, it absorbs the excessive humidity 

 of the soil, and with the drying of the morass there is a disappearance ot 

 the malaria. Gimbert estimates that the tree extracts from the soil ten 

 times its own weight of water during the twenty-four hours. Outside of 

 its native habitat, this property of the tree has been successfully tested 

 in Algeria, in the notorious Campagna di Roma, in the delta of the Var, 

 near Nice, and in California. Districts which were uninhabitable have 

 been made healthful and entirely free from malaria. by the planting of 

 these trees. 



Therapy. Locally: Applied in the form of a mixture of an ounce 

 or more to a pint of tepid water, it is an admirable stimulating disinfec- 

 tant to chronic, ill-conditioned ulcers, removing the foetor of the dis- 

 charge and improving the character of the secretion. A mixture of half 

 this strength may be used with excellent results in vaginal leucorrhcea, 

 and particularly when there is erosion and ulceration of the os. As an 

 antiseptic and a corrective of the foetor from decomposition of retained 

 placenta, a similar injection is useful. A drachm or two of the fluid 

 extract rubbed on the hands will remove the persistent odor caused by 

 vaginal examination, in such cases as the above. Pencilling of the 

 fauces and pharynx with the fluid extract in diphtheria, both gives relief 

 to the patient and is an efficient deodorant. The inhalation of the spray 

 from the steam atomizer is a valuable adjunct to the treatment of diph- 

 theria, and also as a palliative in purulent bronchitis and phthisis. 



Internally. In intermittent fever. The marked influence of the 

 tree in ridding districts of malaria, suggested the internal administration 

 of Eucalyptus globulus in malarial disorders. The trial to which it has 

 been submitted has established it as an anti-malarial remedy of much 

 power, and even as a formidable rival to quinine in certain cases. While 

 in more recent and pronounced attacks of the disease, its action is not so 

 prompt or certain as that of quinine, it is more effectual in the chronic 

 forms. Especially in districts in which the patient is continuously ex- 

 posed to the malarial influence, and in cases in which quinine has appar- 

 ently lost its power to avert or abort the paroxysm, is the superiority of 

 Eucalyptus globulus demonstrated. The following combination is a 

 most admirable one in the debility of cachexia ensuing on the prolonged 

 effects of the malarial infection: 



R Kxt. eucalypfi globuli fluidi ^j 



Kxt. berberis aquifolii fluidi ^j 



Ext. taraxaci fluidi 5ss 



Glycerinae ^jss. 



M. Sig\ -A teaspoonful every four hours. 



