A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . bluishgreen, and less aromatic. Bothare here illustrated. Constituents.—Volatile is also a crystallizable resinin eucalyptus, and some tannin. Medicinal Uses.—Eucalyp-tus trees are said to rendermarshy and malarial districts in-habitable, which effect has beenvariously ascribed to an exhala-tion of ozone or eucalyptol fromthe leaves, or to the drainage ofthe soil on account of the exhala-tion of water from the leaves,which is said to be equal to tentimes the weight of the tree ineach twenty-four hours. Eucalyptus is a stimulant tonicand
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . bluishgreen, and less aromatic. Bothare here illustrated. Constituents.—Volatile is also a crystallizable resinin eucalyptus, and some tannin. Medicinal Uses.—Eucalyp-tus trees are said to rendermarshy and malarial districts in-habitable, which effect has beenvariously ascribed to an exhala-tion of ozone or eucalyptol fromthe leaves, or to the drainage ofthe soil on account of the exhala-tion of water from the leaves,which is said to be equal to tentimes the weight of the tree ineach twenty-four hours. Eucalyptus is a stimulant tonicand stomachic, increasing the ap-petite and digestion, and also, toa ce-rtain extent, the intestinalsecretions. Useful in dyspepsiaand gastric catarrh. It is also blennorrhetic, dia-phoretic, and diuretic, and istherefore of value in purulent catarrh of the bronchial membranes,chronic catarrh of the bladder, etc. Eucalyptus has been used internally in intermittens. Dose.—One to five grams (15 to 75 grains), best in the form offluid Figs. 248-250.— Eucalyptus. «, second yearsleaf, half size ; 5, first years leaf, half size ; c,unexpanded flower, natural size. 438 A COMPANION TO THE EUCALYPTI EXTRACTUM FLUIDUM; U. Extract of Eucalyptus. To make five hundred cubic centimeters (or its equivalent—17 U. ), use five hundred grams (or its equivalent—17§ avoirdupoisounces) of the drug-, in No. 30 powder. As a menstruum use alcohol. Moisten the drug with one hundred and seventy-five grams (about 7-^fluidounces) of the menstruum. Pack it tightly in a cylindrical perco-lator. Saturate with menstruum. Macerate forty-eight hours. Thenpercolate. Reserve four hundred and twenty-five cubic centimeters (14J fluid-ounces) of the first percolate. Continue the percolation until the drugis exhausted. Evaporate the second percolate to the consistence of honey and thendissolve it in the first percolate. Add enough of the menstruum to makethe whole measure five
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