the eucalyptus Oil- 
How few even of our Me-Iioal Exporta here in 
^0 Umted Statea. know tUo great Value of the 
EooALYprcra Oil. 
o u' "w ^*1® rooeivod tho Profeaaor Hugo 
Schultz 8 Treatise on Eucalyptus Oil, translated 
Aud supplemental by Baron Sir Eerd Von Mueller 
K C. M. 0 ., F. tt. S.. E. H. D.. P. G. S„ ftc.! 
the truly distmguislied Government Botanist of 
\ ictona m Australia, and jmt reprinte<l from the 
Australian Gazette^ for 1883. 
This grand work was kindly sent us by the 
talented Author .*md contains most wonderful re- 
ports from this motlical Authority of the almost 
miraculous healing profiertifti of the Oil and tae 
other preparations. 
When we give from such authorities, we fee 1 
we can claim that the EooALvprtr.s On, possesses 
a povyerof iloaliiig, which no other preparation 
can l)oa4t. 
^ 1 (US work ail I the proof r.m bo seen at the 
FsVKMiiuOmce. See our lUt of Agents, where 
you can buy the famed oil and the other j Eucalyp- 
tus preparations. ^ 
Wo now call special attention to tho following 
■tracts from this Important Medical Work and 
ithe very special attention of all onr Medical prac- 
titioners, druggists aud apothecaries, for those 
who desire to restore their patients, should know 
the TKirriis hero presented, coming as they do, 
'from great medical authorities abroad. 
TREATISE ON EUCALYPTUS OIL 
Professor Hugo Schulz, of Griefswald, while con- 
|nected .with the University of Bonn, enriched the 
Miontifio literature with an imporUnt publication, 
entitled pasEucalyptus-Oel.PUarmacologiseb uud 
lOhmsch dargesteUt,” 1881, and thus brought to. 
^ethor what mainly was known on that subject up 
to that time, his essay also being replete withj.orig- 
mal observations, chemical, physiological, and 
"diciiml. Strangely enough, in the very lauda of 
‘‘^ucalyptua ^heir medicinal properties, though 
ful and safe, hare obtained hitherto but very 
^»to professional recognition in either med- 
r surgery. Still, Eucalyptus oil and several 
laeable Eucalyatus preparations have made 
their way to some extent as popular or domestic 
remedies m AustraUa also. Absence of malaria 
fevers from most parts of the Australian territory 
may account to some extent for the v^ry limited me 
mto which the Eucalypti are drawn by legitimate 
therapy m thU part of the globe: But we have now 
•uch ovenvhelming testimony of the special value of 
he oU ss an antipyretic aud antiseptic;from abroad, 
^at tbo new observations of Professor Schulz de« 
•erveap^here a careful and extensive study by 
med^ practitiouers. lu bringing hU observatioi 
^fore the profession here, it was deemed desirable 
of 
^ other observers, who employed the oil or 
wped.sJso other active principles of Eucalyptus in 
^ir caiu^; these additions have beef m Je 
not^!* under extreme abridgment in parenthetic 
Professor SchuU divides the results of his en- 
quiries and own observations on the Eucalyptus oil 
wto 16 chapters, of these only such are here reoapit' 
mated at some length, as are of particular medical 
interest; from the other chapters only brief notes 
could find space for the present purposes. His 
treatise closes with references to tho literature on 
v>ucaly{its, mainly so far as it bears on chemistry, 
pathology and therapy, the quotations extending 
from 1865 to IfWO. Dr. Grisanl gave a list of pub- 
lications on Eucalyptus in the Bulletin de la Societo 
d’Acclimation,jParia, 1877; in the sixth decade of 
the Eucalyptus Atlas, this list has been augmented 
considerably. It will thus be seen, that the whole 
medical history of thejEucalyptus oil extentls over 
less than ^ years, although the very similar 
Cajuput oil (of Melaleuca Leucadendron) has been 
in popular use through many parU of India for at 
least some centuries. Rumph, already 200 years 
ago, wrote of the Cajuput oil as a sudnrfic and 
stomachic in use on the Molucces, and notes this 
remedy especially as administered somewhile after 
parturition; ho also found the native i>eople there 
employing the foliage of tho Cajuputi-Molaleuca as 
an insectioide. In legitimate practice the oil has 
long been recognized os an anti-spasmodic. 
Professor Schulz in his first chapter explains that 
the Eucalyptus Oils, as they api>car in commerce, 
differ considerably; tbU is traceable partly to the 
diversity of the raw material, Jpartly to the mode of 
distillation, and partly to tho age of the oil. He 
operated with oil distilled from leaves of Eucalyptus 
obto^ed from Algeria. 
1 Are this tree for forestal aud hygienic pur|>osea 
a. 4.1 Introduced and also largely diffused chiefly 
throuifb tho writer of this communication, Baron 
Von Atueller. 
In reference to various oils from different mcien 
of Eucalypts, the reports of the International 
hibitions of 1855, 1862,* and of subsequent yeart 
might be consulted, furthermore, the descriptive 
Atlas of Eu(»Iypta, 1879-1883. with 100 Hthographie 
plates in which work also the hygienic action of the 
Eucalypts is discussed. The great work is in ten 
volumes by Baron Ferd Von Mueller. 
The eucalyptus oil acts highly bouefioiaUy on 
wounds, whether— according to requirement — it 
is applied directly, then even causing no' pain, or 
whether mixed with much water, to moUten com- 
presses aud bandages, or to irrigate thf^■ caviUea 
of wounds. 
Pure eucalyptus oil, in comparison with car- 
bolic acid, is not poisonous, and can therefore bo 
administered even in large doses internally. 
Eucalyptus oil can therefore bo employed with 
impunity, when any risk is foreseen in tho use of 
carbolic acid; thus in the treatment of youthful 
individuals and of exceedingly debilitated pa- 
tients, also in cases where large spaces of wounds 
lead to great rosorbtion from without; whdo also 
anexcessivequantity of the administered oU can 
never he followed by such serious consequences, 
as in the case of carbolic^ acid. 
Dr. ix, von Schloinitz, in Arnsberg, expeti* 
monted clinically also with eucalyptus oik 
Abscess OU the neck.— Incision; injection of 
^vater with .5 per cent, eucalyptus oil; bandage 
with eucalyptus lotion of the same strength; ae- 
cretiou reduced to a minimum; healing in 11 
days, ® 
Extensive burning of the leg tlirougU a solution 
of caustic potash.— Dressing with a hamlage 
moistened witli y per cent, lotion of eucalyptus 
Oil; smooth healing in 6 weeks. 
To supplement these important therapeutic 
records, as adduced by Professor Schulz, the fol- 
lowing more recent cases have been aolocted:^ 
Hr. Keller, of V'ieniia, saw under bis trt^tineut 
of 43'- cases of partly simple, jjartly complicatetl 
malanan fever, 310 cured by the use of eucalyp- 
tus, 202 getting only a single dose of the tincture. 
qumino having beon giveli previously in 118 out 
of the 4.32 cases. 
Or. \V ooster, of 8an Francisco, in a report on 
1-9 cases of various diseases, treated exclusively 
with fluid, extract of eucalyptus, gives the follow 
ing results: — 
Komittent fever , . , , 
Intermittent fever. , . . 
Typhoid fever 
Nephritis 
Diuresis . . , , 
Incontinence of urine 
Vesical catarrh . . , , 
Blennorrhagia . . , , 
Dysentery 
('hronic diarrhcea . 
Gonorrheea jg 
Hpdrops (j ^ 
Whenever the cases did not yield to treatment, 
the condition of tho patient became ameliorated. 
We have the Testimony of some forty eminent 
European Physicians on tho value of the Euca- 
lyptus. 
on sate in San IVancfaco caJyptui Prepartioiu, now 
5 cases, 
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