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REPORT 2.* In the the internal administration of eucalyptus as a 

 remedy for malarial fever, we do not have one uniform and universal 

 application ; still it compares favorably with other remedies in general 

 use. If I had written this article after the first six months' experience in 

 its use, I might have said that it absolutely cured all forms and conditions 

 of active malarial poisoning, for it did so in every instance in scores of 

 cases and in all forms, from simple intermittent to " dumb ague," and in 

 several cases by a single dose. So uniform was its action that I felt con- 

 fident we had at last an unfailing remedy, but since the first year I have 

 failed in many instances with the same preparation the tincture. 



Hence it seems to me that it partakes of the nature of other remedies 

 in respect to particular seasons and localities for its better action. Euca- 

 lyptus, however, has acted promptly when quinine has failed. I first 

 employed it in a case of masked intermittent, in which the poison had 

 had pretty much its own way for three months, and in which quinine 

 and arsenic only produced temporary mitigation, while gelsemium, nux 

 voniica, ipecac, and nitric acid seemed powerless to touch the slightest 

 symptoms, and where the first dose of eucalyptus wrought an entire 

 change. The remedy was taken at the time of the chill, and the fever 

 did not follow. The patient soon recovered her strength, and has since 

 had no return of ague symptoms now over three years. This is con- 

 trary to the opinion of some that it has no effect on chronic forms of 

 malarial fever. 



Bucalyptus is also recommended in all catarrhal affections of the air 

 ^passages, from the common coryza to chronic bronchitis, and of the ali- 

 mentary canal, ulcers in the stomach, chronic diarrhoea, and in the dis- 

 eases of the urinary tract, such as inflammation and irritation of the 

 bladder, gonorrhoea and gleet. I have found it of special benefit in irri- 

 table bladder. One case that lately came to me from Fountain county, 

 Indiana, in which belladonna and camphor relieved her perfectly, while 

 in this city, but on her return home the irritability came on with double 

 force, eucalyptus gave immediate relief. She being a very intelligent 

 lady, I will copy a portion of her letter, dated Dec. 4th, 1880 : 



" I am quite free from distress and able to work the early part of the 

 day, but about 3 in the afternoon the ' ache ' begins ; there is a constant 

 desire to pass water and a strained, protruding feeling at the neck of the 

 bladder ; then follows a fearful itching, scalding, aching sensation, which 

 well-nigh drives me frantic. 



' After a time of suffering which is exhausting, the distress subsides. 

 I eat heartily but so bruised and beaten do I fell that I can only take the 

 edge of a chair for rest. I have such a time, also, every night, being 

 obliged to get up every few minutes to pass a few drops of water, and the 



* Dr. H. A. Foster in the Phys. and Surg. Inv. (Therapeutic Gazette, 1880, p. 223). 



