Essays in heart and lung disease / by Arthur Foxwell.
- Foxwell, William Arthur.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays in heart and lung disease / by Arthur Foxwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![4+3 bronchia] hyperaemia by inducing vasomotor dilata- tion. Eucalyptus is generally admitted to be a powerful ger- micide : its action on full grown bacilli is from three to five times as strong as that of carbolic acid ; but its action on spores is only a weak one, probably considerably less than that of carbolic acid. The germicidal power does not reside in the eucalyptol alone, for Omelchenko has shown that while the vapour of eucalyptol takes x34 hours to kill the bacilli of anthrax, 72 hours exposure to the vapour of eucal. glob, oil is sufficient to destroy them. Indeed, eucalyptol bears something the same relationship to eucalyptus oil that morrhuol does to oleum morrhuas and, antisepsis apart, we must at least lose most of the balsamic virtues of the oil by the use of eucalyptol. Benjafield quotes a letter to the Tasmanian News, wherein a gardener states that “ if fruit trees be mulched in winter with eucalyptus leaves they will be entirely free from blight and fungi ” during the ensuing summer. He also tells us that he injected a little of the oil into a rose tree covered with aphides, and that these all disappeared in a few days. France, the land of hypodermic medication, gives a daily injection of some 4 minims dissolved in vaseline (12 minims). Hainaut states that this medium both weakens the antiseptic action and produces local irrita- tion. So given, it is perceived in the breath at the commencement of the treatment in fifteen to twenty minutes and the odour persists for a few hours only, but after a few days, in three or four minutes the patient](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034922_0463.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
