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latter instance tlie oil of eucalyptus leayes was 
used. The case was a very marked one. After 
three weeks the patient expectorated a large 
quantity of sputa of frightful odour, and after- 
wards this daily to the extent of half a pint. 
Carbolic acid (1 part in 100) inhaled for two 
days produced no improvement. One hour after 
taking 20 drops of eucalyptus oil, internally, the 
expectoration lost its fcetor ; thence sleep and 
appetite improved. After taking, morning and 
evening, 20 drops of eucalyptus oil for four days, 
the bad odour again was perceptible in the sjmta, 
but did gradually cease under the effects of daily 
doses of 60 drops of oil, augmented by inhala- 
tions every three hours, and the patient could be 
discharged in one month as cured. It may yet 
be remai’ked what a relief the deodorisation gives 
as well to the patient as to his attendants. Such 
success might, perhaps, also have been reached 
with oil of turpentine, but certainly not without 
abnormally disturbing the urinary organs. 
The elimination of the oil, as shown before, 
occurs also partly through the kidneys ; lienco 
Gimbert noticed that in acute vesical catarrh the 
use of eucalyptus oil and of powdered eucalyptus 
leaves rendered the turbid urine clear ; the pain 
during micturition ceased and the fever vanished. 
Wooster* reports that of 27 cases of catarrh of 
the bladder, 25 became cured through this remedy, 
Lancet, 1872. 
