EXCERPTS 
FROM PROFESSOR HUGO SCHULZ'S TREATISE 
ON EUCALYPTUS OIL. 
Professor Hugo Schulz, of Greifswald, while 
connected with the University of Bonn, enriched 
the scientific literature with an important pub- 
lication, entitled “ Das Eucalyptus-Oel, Pharma- 
cologisch und Clinisch dargestellt,” 1881, and 
thus brought together what mainly was known on 
the subject up to that time, his essay also being 
replete with original observations, chemical, pliysio- 
logical, and medicinal. Strangely enough, in the 
very lands of the Eucalyptus their medicinal 
properties, though powerful and safe, have ob- 
tained hitherto but very inadequate professional 
recognition in either medicine or surgery. Still, 
Eucalyptua-oil and several purchasable Eucalyptus 
preparations have made their way to some extent 
as popular or domestic remedies in Australia also. 
Absence of malarian fevers from most parts of 
the Australian territory may account to some 
extent for the very limited use into which the 
Eucalypti are drawn by legitimate therapy in 
this part of the globe. But we have now such 
