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Dr. VVooster, of San Francisco, California, in a report of 136 cases of 

 various diseases treated exclusively with fluid extract of Eucalyptus 

 globulus, gives the following results : 



Treated. Cured. Improved. 



Remittent fever .5 5 



Intermittent fever 19 19 



Typhoid fever 9 9 



Nephritis 4 i 



Diuresis 10 7 3 



Incontinence of urine 3 3 



Vesical catarrh 27 25 2 



Blennorrhagia 13 10 3 



Valvular disease of heart 7 7 



Dysentery 4 3 3 



Chronic diarrhoea 13 9 4 



Gonorrhoea (syphilitic) 15 10 5 



Dropsy 6 3 



Of the whole number of cases, 106 were cured and 29 improved. 



Dr. Keller, physician-in-chief of the Australian Railway Company, 

 reports the following cases, with results, as treated with Eucalyptus: The 

 total number of malarial cases was 432. Of them, 310, or 7 [.76 per cent, 

 were cured; 122 required a supplementary course of quinine. Of those 

 cured (310), 202 needed but a single dose of the remedy (the tincture); 

 the remaining 108 cases had one or more subsequent paroxysms. Qui- 

 nine had been given previous to the Eucalyptus in no out of the 432 

 cases. Of the 122 cases in which the remedy failed, 58 were cured with 

 quinine, 10 were sent home. 16 remained under treatment, and 38 re- 

 mained in statu quo. Out of the 118 cases in which quinine had been 

 previously given but failed in arresting the disease, 91 recovered under 

 the influence of Eucalyptus, the remaining 27 were not benefitted. The 

 several types of fever were as follows: 



Complicated. Simple. Total. 



Ouotidian 117 73 190 



Tert an 126 95 221 



yuartan 16 4 20 



Quintan i .... i 



The complications were splenic and hepatic engorgements, anteum, 

 chronic gastric catarrh, paludal cachexia, etc. The remedy proved itself 

 successful in 161 (61.9 per cent.) of the complicated cases, and in 149 

 (86.6 per cent.) of the simple cases. Cures classified according to the 

 types, we find successes in the tertian to have been 75.57 per cent., in the 

 quartan 70 per cent. The remedy in a single dose arrested the disease in 

 107 simple and 95 complicated cases. The treatment was generally com- 

 menced on the fifth day after the paroxysm, and the average duration 

 was but 9^2 days, whereas in previous years when quinine was employed 

 12^2 days was the average time of treatment. The tincture was made by 

 macerating the leaves in alcohol for three months. Ten pounds of the 

 leaves yielded 25 quarts of the tincture. The average dose was two 

 drachms, and the average quantity used per patient was seven drachms. 

 Dr. Burdel has employed it in 50 cases of quotidian, 39 of tertian, 

 and 34 of quartan ague. The powder, tincture and solid extract were 



