Notes on scientific research. 137 



He employed the camphorated wine according to the prescription of the Pharm. Germ. 

 ed. V.: — 



Rp. camphor 1 part 



alcohol 1 „ 



which are gradually mixed with 



mucilage of acacia 3 parts 



white wine 45 „ 



To be shaken before using. 



In this form camphor is apparently a strikingly good vulnerary. The edges of the 

 wounds do not look pale and inflated, as is usually the case when moist bandages 

 are employed; on the contrary, when it is a question of vascularized skin, they have 

 a normal red colour, the granulations are large and fresh, the purification of the wound 

 takes place in a strikingly short space of time, and the anodynous effect is greatly 

 appreciated by the patients. Koch employed camphorated wine in all cases in which 

 usually moist bandages are used, accordingly for the treatment of smeary, ill-healing, 

 painful, irritated wounds. Camphorated wine macerates and inflates the skin less than 

 acetate of alumine. 



Koch was hitherto unable to decide the question if camphor wine accelerates the 

 healing of such wounds as tend to heal very slowly. However, there is no doubt that 

 the conditions of circulation in the neighbourhood of the wounds by no means deteriorate, 

 but often vastly improve, that it excites the formation of granulations, reduces the 

 secretion of pus, and allays pain. 



It further has the advantage over pure alcohol bandages that its use is not painful. 

 Koch also tried to make dry bandages filled with pure finely divided camphor, but 

 without any certain results. 



The effects of this treatment often diminish, in which case it has been found to 

 be advisable to vary them with dry bandages. 



On the sterilization of catgut by means of eucalyptole or juniperwood oil, see page 91 

 of this Report. 



Menthol-eucalyptole for the treatment of diseases of the respiratory channels. — The 

 treatment of tuberculosis by means of menthol-eucalyptole recommanded by Berliner x ) 

 has, according to Rotky 2 ) only then a probalility of success, when the disease has not 

 made too great progress, especially in such cases in which both lobes of the lungs 

 have not been infected. Especially when high fever prevails, a favourable effect of 

 the treatment appears doubtful. If only a part of the lung tissues is diseased, so that 

 only the catarrh is the typical manifestation of it, and if the state of nutrition is satis- 

 factory, it is quite possible to arrive at good results by means of a protracted menthol- 

 eucalyptole treatment. It is especially well worth while attempting this method with such 

 patients who for any not defined reasons are prevented from undergoing climatic cures. 



The object to be aimed at is to bring about the total disappearence of the tendency 

 to cough which originates in the uppermost parts of the breathing passages, as for 

 instance in the larynx and in the upper pharynx, by means of the anassthesis of these 

 parts. This purpose is said to be best attained by a combination of ana?sthesine and 



l ) Comp. Report April 1915, 77. — 2 ) Prager mediz. Wochemehr. 1914, 523; Zentrulbl. f. innere Medium 

 1915, 729. After Merck's Jahrexbericht 29 (1915), 327. 



