able to cause an unnatural, unbalanced ‘sap circulation and with th 
ment of the disease. | 
Sandalwood Oil, West ea As stock sae! of Wisi — 
descriptions. The species Fusnndis set up by Robert Brown was ae 
the species Santalum by De Candolle. The differences of both species are 
ficant, that they may be regarded as identical. Engler *) also writes: “Certain 
According to C. E. “Lane Pealesy | West Australian sandalwood oil contains 75 to - 
80 per cent. santalol. Since however a small amount also of “sesquiterpene ethyl” i i 
said to be present, the oil has not been accepted in the English and American Pharma 
copceia. Experiments in the hospital at Perth and in others have shown that ‘ ‘sesqui- ! 
terpene ethyl” is just as curative as the santalol contained in the oil. a order to, % 
satisfy the requirements of the Pharmacopceia, the “sesquiterpene ethyl” has been 
separated from the oil by a special process, and a product equal to the East Indian 
sandalwood oil has been placed upon the market. etal ae 
The consumption of West Australian sandalwood is great. It cannot be. ‘said | 
whether it is used exclusively for perfumery, as carving wood, and for ceremonial — 
purposes, or partly also for the production of “East Indian” sandalwood oil. aha a 
In the settled districts of West Australia the occurrence of sandalwood decreases. — Hi 
At present it is obtained in great part in the districts of the eastern gold fields. The — 
sandalwood tree is also found in the ere of the continent near the Trans-Australian i 
Railway. CMa a 
According to the Report of the Forest Department of Western Australia*) a 
export of sandalwood, of # 117072 in value, had attained an extraordinarily high lev 
in the period 1st July 1918 to 30th June 1919. Since 1882, in which year the export 
sandalwood brought in £ 96050, has no such turnover been attained. A ton of wood 
now costing £ 13, was at that time valued at £10. The getting of the wood | 
up to now brought no great profit to the inhabitants, but has been very ine 
the Chinese merchants who resold it in their own country. ) 
an isomer of santalol, has yet to be investigated. 
Sassafras Oil.— With a liniment of sassafras oil ane petrolatum: 
results were obtained in cases of poisoning with smack’). 
1) Cf. Gildemeister and Hoffmann, The) Volatile Oils, 2"4 ed., vol. AB A oi 350; Report 18, 4 ies . 
Imp. Inst. 17 (1919), 109. — %) ftmann, Te Natiirliche Phiancen fanittion, 3. vol., . 212. ek 
Record 11 (1920), 88. — 5) Eclectic Med. Journ. 75 (1915), 70. As ad Digest of Comments 
of U.S.A. for 1915, 351. da 
