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eucalyptus oil every four days; dressing, merely 
lint; healing in 8 weeks. 
6. Carcinoma vaginse. — Brushing at first with 
eucalyptus lotion of 10 per cent., then with pure 
oil; pain only slight; action corroding and dis- 
infecting. 
Very satisfactory results were obtained by this 
physician as well in bronchial catarrh as in 
developed phthisis, to diminish cough and secre- 
tion, and to afford night’s rest. The oil is either 
inhaled in a dilution, varying, according to cir- 
cumstances, from 1 to 5 per cent, every three 
hours, or in suitable cases the oil is taken inter- 
nally, first to the extent of ^ to ^ drachms daily, 
mixed with 180 parts of water, and distributed 
into two hours’ doses. For inhalation, also, Haus- 
mann’s respirator can be employed, 10 to 20 
drops of the oil being put on the cotton wool. 
{Bei'liner Klinische Woclienschrift, Aug., 1882.) 
That the fresh bruised leaves can with advantage 
be employed for dressing wounds, to prevent or 
subdue septic inflammation, was mentioned also 
in an extensive article on Eucalyptus Globulus in 
the 6th decade of the Atlas in 1880, though 
known to many of our colonists long before. 
With the 16th chapter on the internal use of 
eucalyptus oil the work closes. 
The principal domain of the eucalyptus oil in 
the field of therapy is that of the intermittent 
fever, in the treatment of which disease it has 
