1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. xxv. 218 The leaues [of groundsell] stamped and strained into milke and drunke, helpeth the red gumme and frets in children.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 127 A proper liniment..to annoint young children that haue the red gum and be all broken out.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 345 Their heads are hid with skalls Their Limbs with Red-gums & with bloody balls Of Menstruall humour.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 378 Red Gum, which besets our Children in Europe, is pernicious to Old Age here.

1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 234 There appeared an Eruption all over his Skin, which was at first taken by the Nurse for the Red-Gum.

1753 ‘A. Fitz-Adam’ World 290 I acquired so much knowledge in the affairs of Child-birth, in Thrushes, Red-Gums, and the management of the month, that I should hardly decline a debate upon those subjects with the most experience nurse.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. i. 2 The child..was all over pimples... ‘Lord! my dear,’ says I, ‘it is nothing in the world but the red-gum .’ View more context for this quotation

1843 Lancet 12 Aug. 675/2 In strophulus intertinctus, the red gum or red gown of vernacular language, the clusters of red pimples are intermingled with erythematous spots and patches.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 586 Lichen strophulosus or strophulus, ‘red gum’, ‘teething rash’, usually regarded as a sweat rash.

1903 Lancet 21 Mar. 784/1 A form of miliaria exactly like the red gum on infants.

1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) viii. 212 Howling and screeching, teething and croup, thrust, red-gum, measles and the belly-ache.

1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry sig. A7^v Sanguis Draconum, is an hard red gumme to be bought at the Pothecaries.

1643 W. Hamond Madagascar 11 By chance those people brought us a kind of Red gum having the smell of Balsome.

1705 J. Harris Navigantium II. 113/2 This Lacque is a red Gum which comes from a Tree resembling our Plumb-tree.

1738 Stibbs Voy. Gambia 267 I shall now describe the Pau de Sangue, or Blood-wood, so called from a red gum which issues from it.

1790 J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 178 At the heart they are full of veins, through which an amazing quantity of an astringent red gum issues.

1865 J. E. Tenison-Woods Hist. Discov. & Exploration Austral. I. 42 The usual red gum was observed oozing out from the bark... This gum is a species of Kino.

1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator xxi. 209 The eucalyptus trees rear their lofty trunks and spread forth their lanky limbs, from which the red gum oozes and hangs in fantastic pendants.

1917 Windsor Mag. May 763/2 Red gum drips from the cold, wet trees, And black death rides on the scented breeze.

2000 Jrnl. Appl. Polymer Sci. 77 746/1 The red gum obtained from most Pterocarpus trees was reportedly used as astringent in treating diarrhea and dysentery.

1794 R. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Nottingham 155 The red gum or rust, which prevails through the Roding district in a dry summer, and which so materially injured the crop of barley last year.

1850 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 18 301/2 Careless persons are apt to treat the red gum with indifference because it prevails more or less every season.

1854 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 25 497/2 This injury to the crop in some districts is called the maggot and red gum.

1899 Times 3 Apr. 11/2 The turnip gnat-midge, Cecidomyia brassicæ, a near relative of the little fly which gives rise to the red gum or red maggot of wheat.

1803 Sydney Gaz. 19 Mar. He has..put on board His Majesty's ship..to be conveyed to England..Red and other gums, string and iron bark.

1821 R. Mart in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales 316 I found also the red..and blue gum.

1846 G. H. Haydon Five Years Austral. Felix 33 Red gum, a wood which has of late years been exported to England in great quantities; it has all the properties of mahogany.

1870 J. O. Tucker Mute 85 Then the dark savage 'neath the red gum's shade Told o'er his deeds.

1895 J. H. Maiden Notes Commerc. Timbers New S. Wales 13 Murray red gum..is the red gum par excellence of the Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

1920 R. Grimwade Anthogr. of Eucalypts Pl. 75 E. calophylla. Marri. Western Australian Red Gum... A tall, sturdy tree, well distributed over the coastal regions of Western Australia.

1931 E. Maxwell Afforestation in Southern Lands lxiv. 273 This other Red Gum, the Forest Red Gum, will grow under conditions that the River Red Gum will not.

1984 Canberra Times 10 Sept. 12/5 Red gum, a hard, close-grained timber with a dark ruby-red colouring, is water-resistant and virtually immune from attack by termites.

2000 Sunday Territorian (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. 6 Buffel grass was threatening ancient Red Gums in and around the Todd River.

1883 Chicago Tribune 13 Jan. 9/4 It has been universally conceded..that the red gum of the Southern States (Liquidamber Styraciflua) would supersede the high-priced and now scarce walnut for furniture.

1885 C. S. Sargent Woods U.S. 45 Liquidambar Styraciflua, L. Sweet Gum. Liquidamber. Red Gum.

1912 M. C. Burritt Apple Growing ix. 131 The staves are mostly made of elm, pine, and red gum.

1964 Jrnl. Mammalogy 45 318 The tree cavity was in an overthrown red gum.

2001 Daily News (Huntingdon, Pa.) 13 June b7/6 Trees that are highly favored by all larval stages [of the gypsy moth] are: all species of oak, aspen,..red gum, hawthorn, willows, and witchhazel.