Scliulz places on record, from his own practice, 
the good done by eucalyptus oil to phthisical 
patients to subdue the very weakening vomiting, 
to which such sufferers are sometimes subject, 
especially as the appetite increases, under this 
treatment. 
Bell* has successfully treated some affections 
of the colon with eucalyptus tincture, and used 
eucalyptus oil in a case of ulcus ventriculi. 
Dobell j* administered eucalyptus tincture in 
hay fever. 
Hosier saw advantage in using inhalations of 
eucalyptus vapour in diphtheria, and while the 
oil is sure to exercise a destructive effect on the 
diphtheritis fungus, it has the advantage over 
many other remedies of being innocuous — a 
superiority never too highly to be estimated in 
the treatment of children. The spray of eucalyp- 
tus oil would have also a more enduring effect 
on account of the trifling solubility of the oil, 
while its slightly stimulating action would 
accelerate the healing of the impaired mucous 
membrane. 
The observations of Mees| and Binz§ have 
shown that the egress of the white blood cor- 
puscles cannot take place under local influence of 
eucalyptus oil. Thus for catarrlial affections of 
* London Med. Record, 1878. 
t London Pharm. Journal, 1874. 
t Deutsches Archiv fUr Klin. Medicin, 1874. 
$ Archiv. fur patol. Anat. und Physiol, 1878. 
