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recent cases of ague the action of quinine far 
surpasses that of eucalyptus. In chronic cases, 
and -vYhenever quinine proved powerless, Rosen- 
stein saw very favourable results from tlie euca- 
]yptus. 
Not less powerful than in raalarian fever has 
the eucalyptus oil shown itself effective, according 
to the observations of, chiefly, French physicians, 
against febids intermittens larvata, expressed in 
some periodically returning neuralgias, especially 
those of the terminations of the quintus and those 
of the gastric nerves. 
That also chronic tumours of the spleen, par- 
ticularly those originating from miasmatic in- 
fluences, are likely to yield to the action of 
eucalyptus oil is foreshadowed by the experiments 
of Hosier, 
Mosengeil saw in traumatic fever, and Zuntz 
also in acute rheumatism of the joints, the tem- 
perature fall after the administration of eucalyptol, 
as recorded by Siegen. Twelve ca^es of typhus 
abdominalis, under the care of Dietsch, * were 
treated for lessening the temperature with 
eucalyptus oil, Dietrich used the tincture in 
febris gastrica. Its action must also in tliese 
cases, be attributed to the anti-fermentive power 
of the medicine, exercised readily in tlie stomach 
and intestines without any irritating effect. Dr. 
Inaugural Dissertation, Munclien, 1874. 
