Quinin has not been shown to be of value, and salicylic acid is rarely of value unless the cause is rheumatism.
If the child's surroundings cannot be changed and lie is subjected to the same conditions of possible reinfection, it may be a wise precaution, much like the prophylactic administration of quinin in malarial regions.
The promoters are probably justified in feeling that physicians who prescribe quinin in combination with “Tongaline” care little about the dosage.
Since acetylsalicylic acid is a definite chemical compound, there is no more likelihood of this being sophisticated than there is of quinin being adulterated.
To quote: The only local anesthetic that produces edema and sloughing is quinin and urea hydrochlorid.
The quantities of quinin and strychnin in this preparation are so well balanced that they relieve the depression and fatigue from mental or physical exertion, without the necessity of recourse to alcoholic stimulation.
Further, the use of quinin salicylate for its salicylic acid content and of quinin hydrobromid for its bromid content is unscientific.
The fallacy of prescribing Wheeler’s Tissue Phosphates either for its quinin or its iron content is apparent.
Quinin and urea hydrochlorid “has the actions of quinin.
It has also been observed that several drugs, for instance, quinin and potassium, depress the cardiac muscle when given intravenously much more than when given in other ways.
It seems to be the rule for him to think that if, notwithstanding the taking of the quinin and whisky, he feels thus ill, he would have been ever so much worse without it.
Some of the reputation of quinin and whisky is due to the fact that not infrequently persons suffer from chilly feelings that seem to portend a cold and take quinin and whisky and the cold does not develop.
Quinin now has no possible specific therapeutic significance in the cure of the series of infections called colds.
Perhaps the most popular is a combination ofquinin and whisky.
After all, though it is usually forgotten, the use of mercury, of iron, of quinin and of most of the tonics depends on nothing better than empiricism.
In the days when we did not understand malaria and considered it in some way as an essential fever due to the absorption of miasmatic material, quinin seemed to have a specific influence upon several conditions.
Experiments with quinin have shown that the action of this substance differs in some animals.
The relation of the mode of administration to toxicity is further shown in the following substances: For the rabbit the minimum fatal dose per kilo of quinin hydrobromid is 1.
Quinin hydrobromid is three times as toxic for the frog as for the pigeon, while for the rabbit it is twice as toxic as for the pigeon.
After recovery from the more serious symptoms 2 drams of sulphate of quinin should be given twice a day until health is restored.
Quinin and calomel in repeated small doses of one-half dram each three times a day are sometimes beneficial.
But he secretly took great doses of quinin and drank much native liquor.
Then, calmly equipping himself for his journey, he buried the repeating rifle and slipped away in the night, carrying with him Blake's quinin and revolver and pocket-filter.
For the first time in his life he found his body shaken with fever and was compelled to use quinin in great quantities.
Later, however, we should givequinin or salicylic acid in 1-dram doses two or three times a day.
Strychnin and quininmay be given throughout almost the whole course of the disease.
Quinin and salicylic acid in 1-dram doses will lower the temperature, but too continuous use of the former in some cases increases the depression.
This solution will show a characteristic blue fluorescence when quininis present.
Upon cooling, an iodin compound of quinin (herapathite) will separate out in the form of a microcrystalline sediment of green plates.
Quinin causes them rapidly to disappear from the peripheral blood, and few or none may be found after its administration.
They are very resistent to quinin and often persist in the blood long after the ameboid forms have been destroyed, but are probably incapable of continuing the disease until they have passed through the cycle in the mosquito.
Quinin being such a universally used drug, numerous instances of idiosyncrasy and intolerance have been recorded.
In malarious countries, and particularly in the malarial fevers of the late war, enormous quantities of quinin were frequently given.
In fact, at the present day in some parts of the South quinin is constantly kept on the table as a prophylactic constituent of the diet.
In the examination of cases of the untoward effects of quinin upon the eye, Knapp of New York found the power of sight diminished in various degrees, and rarely amaurosis and immobility of the pupils.
Chevalier mentions that through contact of the drug workmen in the manufacture of quinin are liable to an affection of the skin which manifests itself in a vesicular, papular, or pustular eruption on different parts of the body.
The sleep commenced at the age of nine, after repeated large doses of quinin and morphin.
The modern pharmacopeia does not possess any substance having a similar virtue, although quinin has been noticed to diminish the size of the spleen when engorged in malarial fevers.
The most unpleasant of the untoward symptoms of quinin exhibition are the disturbances of the organs of special sense.
Taussig mentions a curious mistake, in which an ounce of quinin sulphate was administered to a patient at one dose; the only symptoms noticed were a stuporous condition and complete deafness.
Quinin in tonic doses may be taken with impunity, and even larger quantities are being constantly used for the cure of malaria without doing the pregnancy any harm.
Taste probably is better perceived, yet some newborn babies are said to suck a two per cent solution of quinin as eagerly as milk, though stronger solutions are distasteful.
Taste sense was blunted, and salt could hardly be told from powdered quinin tablets.
The treatment was by quinin and potassium iodide, with massage.
Certain statements made in the literature sound much as if the article might be some sort of a quinin hypophosphite preparation.
The preparation would, of course, prove to be a good thing if it were used in liberal quantities where quinin would ordinarily be used, and some patients using it would get well even if quinin were not indicated.
Quinin was then begun, and the blood examination became negative at the end of three days.
The quinin was discontinued and Sinkina was given in doses of 1 ounce three times a day.
At the end of two weeks quininwas substituted, and the child went on to a rapid and uneventful recovery.
The patient had taken 10 grains of quinin on the day on which the experiment was begun.
Antikamnia’ norquinin bisulphate, amounts to more than 18 per cent.
The day following the administration of 10 grains of quinin and 1 ounce of Sinkina, no parasites could be found in the blood.
Quinin kills the germ of malaria, sodium salicylate cures inflammatory rheumatism, and mercury cures syphilis.
It will be recalled that Ehrlich planned salvarsan to kill the germs of syphilis, just as quinin kills the germs of malaria.
It occurred to Ehrlich that if a substance could be devised which was poisonous for the germ and not for the patient it might be possible to prepare a specific for a given disease, acting as quinin does in malaria.
Sidenote: The uses of quinin] Sulfate of quinin is the most common form of this drug.
A friend of mine with a weak heart took the printed dose of Laxative Bromo Quinin and lay at the point of death for a week.
He stated to me specifically and repeatedly that no drug or combination of drugs, with the possible exception of quinin for malaria, will cure disease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quinin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
