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to treat genitourinary diseases. Plants that grew close to water were thus used

to treat those people who had pain or difficulty with urination. Plants such as

Euphorbia drummondii, which produced a sticky exudate, were used to treat

gonorrhoea, a disease with a pus discharge of similar appearance.

Figure 10.3 Eucalyptus tree.