This is a promotional leaflet issued by the Australian firm of wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists, F.H. Faulding & Co. Ltd., possibly in the late 1910s or early 1920s. The firm was founded by Francis Hardey Faulding (1816-1868) as a 'Chemist and Pharmicien' shop at 5 Rundle Street, Adelaide on 19 May 1845, stocking only the purest and choicest drugs, rapidly expanding with bases in Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. It survives to this day as one of the oldest in Australia. The leaflet advertises their Faulding's "Emu" brand eucalyptus oil, "the spirit of the tree" which was designed for both external and internal use to cure a long list of ailments (asthma, cholera, dysentery, diphtheria, typhoid, fever, influenza, measles, mumps, piles, rheumatism, scarlatina, toothache, worms, whooping cough etc.), though it seems to be primarily an antiseptic. This type of 'cure-all' medicine was very common at the time. Whether it actually lived up to all its claims is highly doubtful. The front of the leaflet shows an attractive young woman with wavy black hair pouring some of the oil into a spoon against a yellow background with a heavy black border. An illustration of the bottle and packaging is on the back.
