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Then we have — 



Phillip, A.— ' The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, etc." (4° London, 

 17S9.) Account of the "red and yellow gum-trees" {Eucalyptus and Xanthorrhcea 

 hastilis), pages 59 and 60, as follows : — 



" In the dysentry. the red gum of the tree which principally abounds on this coast, we found a 

 very powerful remedy. . . . The tree ... is very considerable in size, and grows to a great 

 height before it puts out any branches. The red gum is usually compared to that called Sanguis draconis, 

 but differs from it in being perfectly soluble in water, whereas the other, being more properly a resin, will 

 not dissolve except in spirits of wine. It may be drawn from the tree by tapping, or taken out of the veins 

 of the wood when dry, in which it is copiously distributed. The leaves are long and narrow, not unlike 

 those of a willow. The wood is heavy and fine-grained, but being much intersected by the channels 

 containing the gum, splits and warps in such a manner as soon to become entirely useless, especially when 

 worked up, as necessity at first occasioned it to be, without having been properly seasoned." 



In the same year we have Tench's " Narrative, etc.," p. 119, " These trees yield 

 a profusion of thick red gum (not unlike the Sanguis draconis)." 



White, J. — " Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, with sixty-five plates of 

 nondescript animals, e'.c, curious cones of trees and other natural productions." 4to., 

 London, 1790. Kino for medicinal use, p. 178; Peppermint tree (Eucalyptus piperita), 

 with figure, p. 226 ; the " Red Gum " tree (Eucalyptus resinifera), with figure, and 

 notes on its medicinal value, p. 231. 



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We now leave ancient history, and come to a few modern papers, of which the 

 following may be taken as typical : — 



Redwood, T. — " On the gelatinization of tincture of Kino," Pharm. Journ. I, 

 399. Eucalyptus kino is referred to in general terms, and it is the first reference to the 

 subject of gelatinisation that I know. 



Sutherland, J. — " On the medicinal properties of the Red Gum of Australia." 

 The Technologist, III, p. 69. A brief essay on the chemical behaviour and therapeutic 

 effects of the kino of Eucalyptus rostrata. 



Wiesner, T. — " Eucalyptus Gum." Pharm. Journ. (3), ii, p. 102, from Zeitschr. 

 d. Ally. Oest. Apotheher. Vereines. Contains notes on a number of kinos. 



E. corymbosa Sm., E. globulus Labill., E. rostrata Schlecht., E. leucoxylon F.v.M., 

 E. corynocalyx F.v.M., E. citriodora Hook., E. maculala Hook., E. calophylla 

 R.Br., E. amygdalina Labill., E. piperita Sm., E. pilularis Sm., E. fabrorum 

 Schlecht., E. jissilis F.v.M., E. gigantea Hook., E. viminalis Labill., E. obliqua 

 L'Her. 



Kremel, A. — Eucalyptus kino is dealt with amongst others. He fails to find 

 the Kin.iin of Etti (Amer. Journ. Pharm., 1872, 6,000). Pharm. Post, 1883, No. 11. 



Hudson, F. J.— Kino of E. rostrata as a remedy in diarrhoea. Zeitschr. des oesterr, 

 Apoth. Ver., 1883, 220. 



