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A news item discusses the proposed use of a barren waste of coun- 
try for the cultivation of eucalyptus for oil. and points out that 
Eucalyptus smithii has been recommended as being the more profit- 
able, the leaves of even the young plants yielding as high as 2 per 
cent of an oil which contains 60 per cent of eucalyptol. — Chem. & 
Drug., Australas., 1906, v. 21, p. 183. 
EUGENOL. 
Schinnnel & Co. assert that the specific gravity of eugenol at 25° C. 
lies between 1.064 and 1.067. — Semi-Ann. Rep., 1906. Apr.-May, 
p. 74. 
They point out that eugenol distilled in vacuo and absolutely free 
from water is frequently somewhat lighter than the Ph. Ndl. IV 
limit, 1.072 at 15° C. They have recently observed, in their own 
preparation, a specific gravity of 1.0713 at 15° C. — Ibid., Oct.-Nov., 
p. 86. 
ETJONYMUS. 
Henkel, Alice, mentions Euonymus atropurpureus Jacj., commonly 
known as euonymus, wahoo. burningbush, spindle-tree, and Indian 
arrow- wood, as growing in woods and thickets from Ontario and 
eastern United States west to Montana. — Bui. Bur. Plant Ind., U. S. 
Dept. Agric., 1906, No. 89, p. 29. 
Naylor, IV. A. H.. suggests that the U. S. P. extract of euonymus 
is probably an efficient preparation, where a powerful hepatic is 
required, and that an equally active preparation be included in the 
Ph. Brit, in place of the weaker preparation now official. — Yearbook 
of Pharmacy, 1906, pp. 209, 210. 
EUPATORIUM. 
Henkel, Alice, mentions Eupatorium perfoliatum , commonly 
known as eupatorium, boneset, thoroughwort. Indian sage, agueweed, 
and crosswort, as being found in low wet places from Canada to 
Florida, west to Texas and Nebraska. — Bui. Bur. Plant Inch, U. S. 
Dept. Agric., 1906, No. 89, p. 29. 
Fyfe, John William, notes that Eupatorium perfoliatum was 
classed among the most efficient drugs in the treatment of intermit- 
tent fever and in yellow fever. It was also successfully used in many 
cases of dyspepsia. — Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, p. 321. 
EXTRACTA. 
Moerk, Frank X., points out that the extract of belladonna leaves, 
colehicum conn, mix vomica, scopola, and stramonium are 4 times 
the strength of the drug; hyoscyamus 3.75, opium 1.6, and physo- 
