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made use of. In 57 cases he derived no benefit. The treatment extended 

 from five to ten days. The extract in 10 to 12 grains, daily, was found 

 most beneficial in preventing relapses; this was given for five or six days 

 after the arrest of the paroxysm. 



Castan reports 33 successful cases out of a total of 44 cases treated 

 with the drug. 'Mees, out of 35 cases had 13 cured, 10 greatly benefitted, 

 and 1 2 partially relieved. 



Lorinsen cured 43 cases out of 51 to whom he administered the tinc- 

 ture as an anti-periodic. In one case of failure, both it and quinine were 

 unavailing. Bohn reports a case of a child with a masked intermittent, 

 with cerebral complications, where the tincture in drachm doses proved 

 successful in relieving the symptoms for four hours, and he recommends 

 it in puerperal fevers. Boyce details a case of ague that had resisted qui- 

 nine and arsenic, and was cured by the Eucalyptus in four days. He has 

 used with great success in catarrhal affection? of the urethra. The oil 

 he recommends as of use in odontalgia. Curuow, of London, speaks of 

 a Norwegian that had been five weeks with an attack of ague, tertian 

 type. The temperature was from 104 to 105.6 F. at the acme of the 

 fever before the administration of the tincture of the drug. The admin- 

 istration was commenced on a day preceding an attack, and given in 

 drachm doses ter in die; it modified the attack on the following day so 

 that the highest temperature of the paroxysm was but 100 F., instead of 

 the customary 105. No further return of the paroxysm was noticed. In 

 another case, a Dane, was admitted to the hospital after an attack of five 

 days duration, with severe paroxysms, lasting some twelve hours each 

 time. The highest point of temperature reached at each attack was 

 106.4. One was tertian type, and just before the next attack was due, 

 the administration of Eucalyptus was begun, in the same dose, etc., as 

 before. The next two attacks were modified in their severity, and were 

 much shorter; the dose was then doubled, and he had but a single attack 

 following this date. 



In the external application of the Eucalyptus, equally good reports 

 have been universally given, and it is more especially to this use of it 

 that we would now call your attention. In the United States this has 

 not been so much dwelt upon as on the continent, probably through lack 

 of its employment as an external remedy. As a stimulant to foul, or 

 gangrenous ulcers, bedsores, and in cases ot vaginitis, offensive leucorr- 

 hoea, chronic bronchitis and the like it is one of our best vegetable pre- 

 parations. Dupuytren (Pigne) details a few of the cases in which he has 

 made use of it in his hospital practice. A man had arteritis of the leg, 

 succeeded by gangrene, which extended so high up as to render amputa- 

 tion impossible. In two weeks a large ulcer resulted, whose odor was 

 horribly fetid. Everything in turn was employed to destroy this odor, 

 to no offect. At last a decoction of Eucalyptus was resorted to, and, with- 



