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while the latter largely appeared in fibrin im- 
mersed in a solution of the same strength of 
carbolic acid. Water containing only one per 
cent, of refined eucalyptus oil in a closed glass 
kept fibrin free from bacteria for fully a year 
(and this effect would probably be perpetual). 
Both Siegen and Mees have also shewn long 
ago that alcoholic fermentation is by eucalyptus 
oil or eucalyptol, more strongly hindered than by 
quinine. We have therefore in the eucalyptus 
oil a remedy calculated to act in a high degree 
antiseptic and antizymotic. 
[Also Mr. Th. Taylorf experimented on pre- 
serving albuminous compounds in water but 
slightly eucalyptized, such water proving fatal to 
bacteria and other micro-organisms ; further- 
morOj like Gimbertj he demonstrated that the 
oil injected into veins or arteries would preserve 
cadavers from putridity. Stagnant water, into 
which many eucalyptus leaves have fallen, is 
found to cause no fever, and to prevent putrid 
fermentation. Mrs. Dr. Lewellin informed the 
writer that, in macerating eucalyptus leaves for 
skeletonizing in artistic work, such leaves, unlike 
almost all other foliage, do not cause any un- 
pleasant odor during the process of decom- 
position.] 
The influence of eucalyptus oil on the elements 
of the blood forms the subject of the 4th chapter 
t Keport of the Department of Agriculture of Washington, 1876. 
