Quinine and whiskey have been very popular in this regard but always do harm rather than good.
Their use is a relic of the time when whiskey was employed for almost every form of continued fever and when quinine was supposed to be good for every febrile affection.
Many a person dreading a cold has taken enough quinine and whisky to make him more miserable the next day than the cold would have, had it actually made its appearance, as it often does not.
The quinine and whisky did not prevent it, but the expectation was founded on false premises.
We know now that quinine has no effect {202} except upon malarial fevers, and then only by killing the malarial organism, and that whiskey is a narcotic and not a stimulant and does harm rather than good.
That night I dreamed, with a tag of Marvell's speech buzzing in my head (I had garrisoned it with quinine before I slept).
Then they ate their food, and drugged themselves belatedly with quinineagainst those perils of the night.
No longer need we take Quinine to be "our grim chamberlain to usher us and draw" .
The bullet affected him no more than a quinine pill.
For fever, a littlequinine is added to the same mixture.
Stearic acid remains undissolved upon treating sulphate of quinine with acidulated water.
Those mineral substances that are soluble in alcohol are detected by calcining the suspected sample: pure sulphate of quinine is completely consumed; whereas, the mineral substances present remain behind as a residue.
We will next enumerate the methods employed in the detection of the principal adulterations to which flour, bread, oils of seeds, milk, wines, vinegar and the sulphate of quinine are subjected.
The detection of the presence of sulphate of quinidine is based upon the difference in the solubilities of the oxalates of quinine and quinidine.
Under the same circumstances, quinineis almost completely thrown down.
The operation is then repeated, the ether being replaced by chloroform in which both quinine and cinchonine are soluble.
To detect sugar and mannite, the sample is dissolved in acidulated water, and an excess of hydrate of baryta added: a precipitate, consisting of quinine and sulphate of baryta, is produced.
Now it is settled that while quinine in small doses is an excellent tonic, it has no effect at all upon fevers in themselves nor upon fever-producing conditions.
Quinine was used in all sorts and conditions of fever, and acquired a reputation as a remedy that had the power even to abort conditions leading to all fevers.
There are physicians who still use quinine as a febrifuge in typhoid and other essential fevers, and doubtless its bitter taste helps their patients because of the suggestive value of an unpleasant medicine.
He would regularly swallow the tabloids of quinine or lithia, and fall back on the hard, coarse pillow, exhausted by the mere effort of unscrewing the nickel-cap of the little phial, and tell himself that he was getting stronger.
The erythematous and purpuric eruption of quinine may be confused with the hemorrhagic form of smallpox; but here, too, the history of the course of the illness and the absence of fever will obviate the difficulty.
The ingestion of bromides, iodides, and quinine is sometimes followed by an eruption which may create some confusion in diagnosis.
Livingstone's experience on the zambesi throws doubt on the power of quinine to keep off the type of fever that prevails upon that river.
A great discovery of modern days is the power of quinine to keep off many types of fever.
The quinine he would take, beginning at the coast, would render him proof against fever, until he had passed the delta; but nothing would remove the risk of a long sojourn in the delta itself.
Ninety-six grains of sulphate of quinine are equal to eight ounces of good bark.
Later seed of the best cinchona was obtained, and under skilful management Java has become the chief producer of quinine in the world.
Further, valerianate of atropine has been accidentally substituted for quinine valerianate, and Schauenstein relates a case in which atropine sulphate was administered subcutaneously instead of morphine sulphate; but the result was not lethal.
Within fifteen minutes Malcolm John became unwell, saying that he felt as if he had an attack of heart-burn, and then that he felt the same as when his brother-in-law had on a former occasion given him a quinine pill.
A Chloride of Mercury and Quinine= exists in commerce, prepared by mixing 1 part of corrosive sublimate in solution with 3 parts of quinine chloride, evaporating, and crystallising.
If free nitric acid is present in small quantity only, it may be necessary to evaporate the filtrate from the quinine nearly to dryness, and to test the concentrated liquid for nitric acid.
This enables us to say to the patient, without questioning him, that he suffers from severe frontal headaches and ringing in the ears, that he is very irritahle, and so on through the various symptoms of quinine poisoning.
To illustrate: The Diagnosis from the Eye reveals heavy quinine poisoning in the region of the brain.
I kept away from it myself by taking five grains of quinine and the juice of a lemon once a day on an empty stomach.
Hahnemann discovered the Law of ~similia similibus curantur ~accidentally, while investigating the effects of quinine on the human organism.
We wonder whether the "high altitudes" or the "five grains of quinine daily" were to blame for the celebrated physician's heart disease and death.
The history of the patient reveals the fact that he has taken large amounts of quinine for colds, la grippe or malaria.
As allopathy itself states it: "Quinine reduces fever by depressing the metabolism" (the vital functions).
If, for instance, there is a catarrhal affection of the serous and mucous membranes of the respiratory tract accompanied by fever, the allopath will give quinine in large doses to change this condition.
Also the quinine which I tasted just for luck, and the soap in the little violet wrapper made me quite homesick.
We finally found a link-boy and he finally found the McCarthy's house, and I left them giving Ethel quinine and whiskey.
Captain Beardsley first called my attention to the fact that medicine had gone up in price, and I saw by a paper I got in Nassau that the rebels are already smuggling quinine across the Potomac," answered Marcy.
Hope your venture in quinine paid you well, Mister Jack.
What she needs is absolute quiet, and the quinine has probably excited her and made her delirious.
She found Judy stretched on the sofa, feverish and coughing, while Nance was dosing her with a large dose of quinine and an additional dose of sweet spirits of niter.
It's joost quinine and excitement that's made her go a bit daffy," he said.
But there is nothing to do but humor her, I suppose, until the influence of the quinine wears off.
A weed which has a bitter principle from which a variety of quinine is extracted.
This is the Calisaya, one of the varieties of the plant from which the well-known quinine is made.
On the kopje a friend lent me his emergency pipe, over which a lot of quinine powder had been upset, so I had a few smokes, in which the flavour of quinine prevailed unpleasantly.
All I’m interested in is getting that quinine to the hospital—” “Sure!
There is talk of sending me to Burma with that quinine early to-morrow morning.
You don’t happen to be the young lady who helped bring that quininefrom America?
Those dirty little Japs have all the quinine trees in the world and that’s one way they hope to win the world.
Sparky,” her voice was tense, “I’d like to take that quinine to Burma.
They contain quinine and should be guarded with the greatest care.
We had to break up some of the boxes of quinine and store the goods in the wings, but it’s all there.
There came a roar from the distant tent, then the boy crowded past the boxes of quinine to hold out the slickers.
I do not mind taking a strong dose of quinine if you will give it me, for I feel as weak as a child, but no spirits.
With an impatient shrug of the shoulders the Doctor mixed a strong dose of quinine and gave it to him.
The study of the decomposition products of the cinchona alkaloids especially points quite distinctly to the probable existence in quinine of a hydrogen addition product of pyridine, in combination with a methyl-quinoline group.
Whether a practical commercial synthesis of quinine will follow is another matter, but it is within the bounds of possibility, or perhaps even of probability.
When distilled with potassium hydrate, quinine yields quinoline and its homologues.
The bitter tonics, such as Golden Seal, Gentian, or Willow, together with quinine and iron should be used.
Quinine is a valuable remedy, and is tolerated in large doses.
Bathe the surface with a solution of a drachm of quininein a pint of whiskey.
One strong proof of this is found in the fact that persons who are cured with it are not so liable to relapse as those in whom the chills are broken with Quinine or other agents.
The toning energies of the volitive faculties are better than quinine to fortify the system against miasma or malaria, and they co-operate with all tonic remedies in sustaining organic action.
Quinine should be taken in doses of from five to fifteen grains every two or three hours.
The treatment should consist in the employment of those remedial agents advised in intermittent fever, the Golden Medical Discovery and quinine being taken during the remission of symptoms.
After he has drunk the milk give him this' (it was the half of a quinine pill), 'and wrap him warm.
They were all full of tinned meats and mixed drinks, from ammoniated quinine to white vodka, for they had taken their full share in the overnight loot.
Quinine he had in tablets, and dark brown meat-lozenges--beef most probably, but that was not his business.
These are good Departmental drugs--quinine and so on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quinine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
