From the Journal of Anthropological Society of South Australia: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e4nc6Ke_QEEJ:www.friendsofglenthorne.org.a

From the Journal of Anthropological Society of South Australia: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e4nc6Ke_QEEJ:www.friendsofglenthorne.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Clarke-Vol-33-2008.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=at&client=safari http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e4nc6Ke... There are a few other studies out there on this issue .. quite revealing. EDIT: a nice quote which highlights the issue: Colonist and author Dame Mary Gilmore stated in her reminiscences of growing up in rural New South Wales that: … the white forgets the uncounted ways in which he [was] … unintelligent (and still would be unintelligent) but for what the blacks taught. As parallels to the treatment of snake-bite by sucking, take the use of eucalyptus, the application of weak wattle tan-water for burns and blisters, of clean mud as poultices, of native gums in dysentery, the eucalyptus beds and steam pits for colds and rheumatism, and ask was it a black or a white intelligence that was first to find and apply these(Gilmore 1935: 232). She stated that a whole industry in making medicines owed its existence to Aboriginal practices: It is true there is a eucalyptus extract industry now; but the knowledge that led to that was originally derived from the natives, who used eucalyptus leaves in steaming, and for wounds. For rheumatism steam pits were made, heated by fires, raked out, lined with leaves and then possum-rugs laid over the top. Another use of the leaves was as a strapping for wounds that needed closing in order to heal. These uses came to the pioneers from the blacks (Gilmore 1935: 226).