EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS. "The authentic facts, relating to the remarkable power of the Eucalyptus Globulus in drjing marsh lands and rendering them healthy, are such as to deserve serious and general attention. It appears to be certain that where the Eucalyptus prospers intermittent fever disappears. This tree grows with incredible
rapidity,
absorbs ten times its
four hours, and
camphorated
own
spreads through
emanations.
weight of water in twentyatmosphere antiseptio
the
Dr. Gimbert of Cannes adds to the
results achieved at the
Cape a number of remarkable facts communicated from Algiers and the south of France. At Zondouk, writes Mr. Trottier, I possessed property with a house near the Kiver Hamyze. The emanations from the damp soil struck down the farmers and their servants annually with malarious fever. In the spring of 1867, I planted 13,000 trees of Eucalyptus Globulus; in July they had grown to about three yards in height, and even these were sufficient to ward off the usual continual outbreak of fever, and the place has since remained free from it.
The farm
of Ben
Machydlin,
near
Constantine, was notorious for its insalubrity j it was covered with marshes, winter and summer. Now they have disappeared; 14,000 of the Eucalyptus were planted, and in five years they have completely dried the soil; the tenants no longer suffer from intermittent fever, and their children are in splendid health and vigour. (Watterer, Bullatin de la Societe d' acclimatisation.") "The factory of Gue, at Constantine, was surrounded by a marsh, the pestilential emanations from which rendered the working of the establishment impossible during summer. M.
Febetjaut 2, Zantiere sowed years ficent
large park.
a
OFFICIAL PAPER.
1874.] a
large quantity
and the workmen have the Yar
a
of
Eucalyptus,
and in three
was converted into a magniacreage of morass was water The literally drunk up by the trees,
house
no
more
fever.
built close to a
was
On the banks of
dyke
which banked
The persons living up the river for industrial purposes. in the house had to be changed repeatedly; their health
ruined by the marsh poison.
Mr. Villiard, engineer of that road, planted, two years ago, forty trees in the neighbourhood of the house; from that year the officers were preserved from fever, and this station has since been perfectly healthy. These facts, related in the Comptes Reudus of the Academic des Sciences, with the reports of agricultural committees and confirmatory documents, are of a nature to render was
section of the
comment unnecessary. To medical men, and indeed to others also, this tree has the further interest that its products are of considerable medicinal value, and possess many of the valuable of quinine. It serves, in truth, not only
antiperiodic properties as a preventive but
a
curer
of intermittent fevers."
London Medical record of progress of
Medicine, &c.,
(The
Decem-
ber 17th,
1873.) Eucalyptus Globulus, or blue gum tree, a native of Australia, has been used with success both in France and Germany. All parts have febrifugal properties?leaves, bark, and wood. A tincture has been administered in jii doses in Germany with very satisfactory results. Messrs. Bathgate and Co. advertise the fluid extract and an oil; but the principal interest of the above quotations from French scientific publications is the seemingly great value of the tree as a ground improver. Experiments carried out in India would be of great interest; there is no lack of lands undrained, and undrainable, The
eave at an exorbitant expense, and it would be well to ascertain how far saturated lands can be improved by the growth of
those great water
expending
trees.
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rapidity,
absorbs ten times its
four hours, and
camphorated
own
spreads through
emanations.
weight of water in twentyatmosphere antiseptio
the
Dr. Gimbert of Cannes adds to the
results achieved at the
Cape a number of remarkable facts communicated from Algiers and the south of France. At Zondouk, writes Mr. Trottier, I possessed property with a house near the Kiver Hamyze. The emanations from the damp soil struck down the farmers and their servants annually with malarious fever. In the spring of 1867, I planted 13,000 trees of Eucalyptus Globulus; in July they had grown to about three yards in height, and even these were sufficient to ward off the usual continual outbreak of fever, and the place has since remained free from it.
The farm
of Ben
Machydlin,
near
Constantine, was notorious for its insalubrity j it was covered with marshes, winter and summer. Now they have disappeared; 14,000 of the Eucalyptus were planted, and in five years they have completely dried the soil; the tenants no longer suffer from intermittent fever, and their children are in splendid health and vigour. (Watterer, Bullatin de la Societe d' acclimatisation.") "The factory of Gue, at Constantine, was surrounded by a marsh, the pestilential emanations from which rendered the working of the establishment impossible during summer. M.
Febetjaut 2, Zantiere sowed years ficent
large park.
a
OFFICIAL PAPER.
1874.] a
large quantity
and the workmen have the Yar
a
of
Eucalyptus,
and in three
was converted into a magniacreage of morass was water The literally drunk up by the trees,
house
no
more
fever.
built close to a
was
On the banks of
dyke
which banked
The persons living up the river for industrial purposes. in the house had to be changed repeatedly; their health
ruined by the marsh poison.
Mr. Villiard, engineer of that road, planted, two years ago, forty trees in the neighbourhood of the house; from that year the officers were preserved from fever, and this station has since been perfectly healthy. These facts, related in the Comptes Reudus of the Academic des Sciences, with the reports of agricultural committees and confirmatory documents, are of a nature to render was
section of the
comment unnecessary. To medical men, and indeed to others also, this tree has the further interest that its products are of considerable medicinal value, and possess many of the valuable of quinine. It serves, in truth, not only
antiperiodic properties as a preventive but
a
curer
of intermittent fevers."
London Medical record of progress of
Medicine, &c.,
(The
Decem-
ber 17th,
1873.) Eucalyptus Globulus, or blue gum tree, a native of Australia, has been used with success both in France and Germany. All parts have febrifugal properties?leaves, bark, and wood. A tincture has been administered in jii doses in Germany with very satisfactory results. Messrs. Bathgate and Co. advertise the fluid extract and an oil; but the principal interest of the above quotations from French scientific publications is the seemingly great value of the tree as a ground improver. Experiments carried out in India would be of great interest; there is no lack of lands undrained, and undrainable, The
eave at an exorbitant expense, and it would be well to ascertain how far saturated lands can be improved by the growth of
those great water
expending
trees.
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