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out exaggeration, he states, in five minutes all fetor had disappeared. 

 The decoction continued to be used with the same effect until death oc- 

 curred, two or three weeks subsequently. 



Another man, who had been under treatment in the hospital for two 

 months with extensive, deep ulcer from varix, of a year's duration, had 

 the decoction applied to the ulcer three times a day, with remarkable 

 effect. In five or six days the ulcer was entirely 'covered over with 

 healthy granulations, and in a month it was entirely well. 



A woman had been troubled for many months with an ulcer around 

 the orifice of the urethra. It was cauterized five times with no result. 

 After twelve days' use of the decoction of Eucalyptus, washing thrice 

 daily, it was well. 



Four cases of syphilitic chancres healed under the Eucalyptus dress- 

 ing in five or six days, without other treatment. These were very recent 

 cases, or constitutional treatment would have been resorted to. 



A man that had au intermittent fever that had proved rebellious to 

 quinia, and also to arsenic, which latter had been administered for two 

 weeks, after a three weeks' course of the Eucalyptus was cured entirely. 



So numerous are the cases of bronchitis cured with the drug, he 

 states, that it is hardly worth while to mention them. 



Woodward has used the tincture as a disinfecting and antiseptic 

 enema in case of retained and decomposed placenta with marked suc- 

 cess. Also in a case of putrid dysenteric passages, the Eucalyptus given 

 internally changes the offensiveness of the stools, besides checking their 

 frequency. In a case of diphtheria where death was supposed to be in- 

 evitable, the local application relieved the fetor, and assisted in checking 

 the further spread of the disease. He has also employed it in a single 

 case of neuralgia dependent upon the malarial taint. Other remedies 

 were fruitlessly tried before resorting to the Eucalyptus. In twenty-four 

 hours the relief was permanent. He gave it in fifteen-drop doses. 



Leary, in a recent discussion before the " King's County Medical 

 Society," says that for four years he has used it as nearly a specific in 

 gonorrhoea. He noticed then its great diuretic powers, and so has since 

 given it, in ten-minim doses of the fluid extract, in cases of dropsy. He 

 briefly reports four, one due to Morbus Brightii, another to cardiac 

 hypertrophy with dilation, the third to cardiac disease, and the fourth to 

 cardiac hypertrophy, where remarkable success followed its administra- 

 tion. He has also made frequent use of the remedy in passive conges- 

 tions of the kidneys, and always with benefit. He noticed that some- 

 times his patients would complain of tinnitus aurium, and headache 

 from the passive cerebral congestion. 



Wooster states that he has used gallons of the fluid extract in the U. 

 S. Marine Hospital, and was surprised at its uniform and reliable effect 

 in the diseases for which it is recommended. He certifies that it is a 



