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at the unwholesome season of ploughing, when the upturned soil 
teems with miasma, will not soon forget the fetid odour emanat- 
ing from the marshy ground, nor the doom written on the faces 
of the people. 4 The fever ! the fever ! 5 was the continual cry that 
rang in our ears throughout our journey; and the poor colonists 
begged us for quinine, which we could only give, of course, in 
minimum doses. Twenty years hence this same insalubrious 
plain of the Sig may be transformed into a region as healthful 
as the high grounds of Sussex or Surrey by means of the 
Eucalyptus. 
To M. Carlotti, a Corsican doctor, we are indebted for a series 
of extensive and highly instructive observations in this field. 
During a summer and winter when intermittent fever was more 
common than usual in Corsica, M. Carlotti was enabled to 
test fully the powers of his Eucalyptus medicines, generally be- 
ginning with small doses and increasing them after renewed 
trials. The results obtained from infusions and decoctions of 
the leaves were most satisfactory. In some cases the remedy 
was more efficacious than quinine even, preventing a relapse, 
which quinine often fails to do. A fellow-countryman of Dr. 
Carlotti’s, M. Tedeschi, was induced to follow his example, and 
wrote to him afterwards as follows : 46 1 am like St. Thomas, and 
wished to convince myself by repeated trials before declaring my 
opinion. The results have been entirely satisfactory. Bemem- 
ber that I have never used the new medicines except in cases 
which quinine failed to cure. There have been failures and 
relapses, but the number of cures is large enough to place the 
decoction of Eucalyptus on a par with quinine as a tonic.” 
No less conclusive is the evidence of Dr. Miergues, of Bouf- 
farik, Algeria, published in the “Science pour Tous ” for January 
15, 1870, wherein he gives a list of cures effected not only in 
human beings but animals, in the latter especially skin diseases, 
by means of a kind of Eucalyptus tar. For it must not be sup- 
posed that malaria, ague, and intermittent fevers are the only 
maladies amenable to these remedies. Dr. Miergues is the 
author of twenty-four medical preparations, in the form of 
tonics, stimulants, medicaments, plasters, powders, &c., and since 
that time many others have been made and are gradually getting 
into use. In the South of France and in Rome it is now a com- 
mon practice to put a few dried Eucalyptus leaves in the light 
wine of the country as a tonic, and also to induce sleep in fever- 
ish patients by placing a young Eucalyptus plant near the bed- 
side. In Algeria the medical uses of the Eucalyptus are con- 
stantly on the increase.* A few leaves put in a bath of hot 
* See a paper on this subject, contributed by the present writer to the 
“ Pall Mall Gazette ” — “ Medical Uses of the Eucalyptus globulus ” January 
16, 1875. 
