ae Notes on Scientific Research in the Domain of the 
_. Terpenes and Essential oils. 
General. 
ee: “The Germans in the eine: the Germans and our Cypress Trees’ is the title of 
an article published by M. Provence in “Le Few” (1917, pages 114 to 120). It is quite 
characteristic of the tacties of journalistic warfare. A. Binz?) turns against Provence’s 
fa Se assertions and publishes a translation of the article, omitting only some unim- 
p ortant passages. An extract therefrom will be given in the following lines. 
a _ “After a historial introduction, Provence talks about cypress oil and its use, men- — 
to oning that the Romans availed themselves of a decoction of the fruits against dysentery. 
1 the Middle Ages, they were used as a remedy against scrofula. A physician in Aix 
1 the Provence prepares from them a remedy against piles. But the most important 
Pp ee founded on the elaboration of the cypress tree and which induced the distillers 
Se himmel to seek it in the Provence, is the treatment of whooping cough. A romanic 
‘scientist, Dr.J. M. Bravo, who published the results of his discovery in the Rewsta Me- 
: ficale de Chile, found in 1890 cypress oil to be an excellent remedy against this illness. 
We shall revert more fully to the Chilian doctor’s work and to Schimmel’s industrial 
Pillage based upon it”. | 
Be Binz continues: “A description of cypress oil follows, which we can here pass in 
silence, and the reader now expects the disclosure of Schimmel’s atone which, 
ho fis ever, shrinks to the following harmless statement:— 
# _ “In 1890, Dr. Bravo proposed in the above named Chilian periodical the use of cypress 
Oo il as a specific against whooping cough. The cypress tree is widely spread in his 
ee ntry. In 1892, the “Deutsche Medizinalzeitung” recommended cypress oil for ae 
cough. Since then, our “Boches” have appropriated the discovery of the “savant 
latin”, have given it a German name(!) and tried to industrialize it through Schimmels 
in n order to make it a source of profit for the country. Since 1894, the Miltitz distillers 
pl roduced the oil on a large scale. Physicians like Prof. Dr. Soltmann, Dr. H....., of 
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'Friedenau, and Dr. Winterseel spread the use of the product, which we owe to: the 
Bs overy of the Chilian doctor”. 
Be - As Binz further explains, Provence then discusses in detail the: publications of said 
. rman physicians or, to speak in his own terms, of these “expérimentateurs boches”, 
at the same time describes quite correctly, following Schimmel’s Reports, hat 
prog ress the production of cypress oil has made in furtherance of medicine. The way 
n which it is done, however, is meant to give the impression that Schimmels were 
0 better than robbers:— 
Bree abatteurs de cyprés étaient des misérables, que Vopinion unanime reprouvait’’. 
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oe *) Deutsche Parf. Ztg. 4 (1918), 19. 
