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salicylic acid was employed. Dr. Robson’s mode 
of substituting vapour of eucalyptol for carbolic 
acid spray was adopted also by Dr. T, Prigdin 
Teale, Dr. Clouston, and Dr. Spencer Wells with 
satisfactory results. {British Medical Journal, 
September, 1882.) Dr. Floyd, of Sedgwick, 
Kansas, has given his experiences with eucalyptus 
dressing, finding none equal to it in lacerated 
wounds. (Detroit Therap. Gazette, 1881). In- 
deed, Professor Lister himself countenances the 
use of eucalyptol, when dangers are expected from 
treatment with carbolic acid, {Lancet, 1881.) 
Dr. Samuel Sloan directs attention to the ad- 
vantages of the oil of eucalyptus as an antiseptic 
in obstetric practice, as this remedy is not poison- 
ous, as in its proper dilution it is not irritating, 
as it does not coagulate the lochia, as its odor 
is not unpleasant, and as it acts as an uterine 
stimulant. He recommends this oil also in the 
forming of pessaries, and in a solitary case of 
pyemia arising after delivery he resorted success- 
fully to repeated hypodermic injections of 
eucalyptus oil diluted with two to four times its 
quantity of olive oil. {Lancet, September, 1882,) 
Dr. G. von Schleinitz, in Arnsberg, experi- 
mented clinically also with eucalyptus oil, purified 
by Schulz’s process. Keither dyspepsia nor 
cephalalgia, nor albuminuria arose from the use of 
the oil. In phthisis and typhus abdominalis 
reduction of the pulse was observable and quick 
