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                                    ³Camphor³
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    (Cinnamomum camphora) also called gum camphor and laurel camphor, is a
    colorless crystalline mass, with a characteristic mothball odor, obtained
    by passing steam through the wood of the camphor tree indigenous to
    Formosa. The tree resembles the linden and the sassafras.

       Both the wood and the resultant camphor are repellant to insects and
    can be kept in closets and closed trunks to keep away moths and bugs. It
    has been used for fevers, hysterical complaints, rheumatic* pains and
    gout and is useful in all irritating conditions of the sexual apparatus.
    It was not known to the Greeks or Romans, although the people in Arabia
    used it to lessen sexual* desire.

       It is used externally as a wash or liniment* for bruises, sprains,
    strains, and pains; for nervousness, toothache and headache*. It can be
    poisonous if too much is taken internally or inhaled and may cause
    vomiting, pallor, cold, confusion, and delirium. Give water if this
    occurs at once; induce vomiting; follow with alcohol, coffee, cold,
    artificial heal, opium and bromides for the convulsions.