376 SOME REPUTED MEDICINAL PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



3. An alcoholic extract. 



4. A wine. 



5. A liniment prepared from the essence (sic). 



It is interesting to note that the preparations used in Italy 

 against the marsh fevers in Rome and its vicinity all come from a 

 place called Tre Fontane, and have the form of a highly con- 

 centrated ethereal extract and an alcoholic elixir. 



If a few drops of a Eucalyptus preparation are placed on the 

 tongue a sensation of pungent freshness soon followed by one 

 of warmth, is experienced, the latter being due to hyper-secretion 

 of the salivary and buccal glands. Its ingestion into the stomach 

 creates a similar sensation of warmth, and, besides, an emission of 

 its characteristic odour by the mouth. The urine reveals a faintly 

 violet colouration, indicating the passage of the drug through the 



system Larger doses of the drug produce headache, 



malaise, general fatigue and prostration, and, as shown by Gimpert, 

 fatal results in animals, by paralysing the reflex motor centres of 

 the spinal cord." La France Medicate, Nos. 43-5, 1885, quoted 

 in Therapeutic Gazette, of Detroit, U.S.A.). 



" An honourable and noteworthy rank as an auxiliary in mias- 

 matic fevers is all that can with propriety be claimed for the 



preparations of Eucalyptus The statement that 



Eucalyptus exerts its antipyretic character also in the thermal 

 elevations of tuberculosis and cancer, appears if true, all the 

 more noteworthy, as its virtues in this direction have been most 

 generally overlooked. 



" Important as the antimiasmatic and genei-al antipyretic pro- 

 perties of Eucalyptus * unquestionably are, it is in the laryngeal 

 and bronchial inflammatory affections that the drug renders its 

 most signal service. Its action in this respect rivals turpentine 

 and tar, and oflfers even advantages in being better borne by the 

 digestive organs and being more easily administrable. 



* The oil is undoubtedly referred to here. 



