Eucalyptus Oil Poisoning.

EUCALYPTUS OIL POISONING. [THBr 359 him a plentiful supply (3 pints) of new milk with Liebig's extract of meat in sufficient quantity to disguise the milk. This he took for a considerable time, but no meat or other diet. I alqo gave him peppermint water to make him think he was taking medicine. After three or four weeks he got tired of the disguised milk, and I told him that as soon as he would take the ordinary food he should give it up gradually in proportion as he took meat. This was gradually done, and he soon regained the ordinary habits of living and got rid of his foolish idea of liver disease, and remained quite well. CASE ni.-A sister of the last case, aged about 13 years. A healthy looking girl. I was consulted about her for a supposed disease of the kidney. The friend accompanying her brought me some urine heavily laden with a yellowish precipitate resembling lithates, which was partially soluble in nitric acid, with slight effervescence. From the first I strongly suspected fraud, but as she had been under the care of another practitioner I exercised caution; but in a short time I felt sure she was trying to deceive me. Having gained the confidence of her governess, I told her my suspicions, instructing her to send me by post two specimens of urine-one passed under her supervision and kept by her, the other passed by the girl and left under her own care. I instructed the governess not to tell the mother of my suspicions. Then the fraud became clear. I received the two specimens. No. 1 perfectly normal; No. 2 " treated" by the girl herself, laden with deposit. I then requested the mother to bring the girl herself, with a specimen of the urine passed and dealt with by the girl herself, which presented the same appearance as that referred to as No. 2. Having made an excuse for sending the girl out of the room, I told the mother what I suspected. Of course she was very much annoyed, but I reasoned with her, and showed her the importance from a moral point of view, and requested to be left alone with the girl, when I kindly but forcibly challenged her as to fraud. At first she denied, but I persisted, and telling her if she told me the trath she …