Quinine Amaurosis

Quinine amaurosis.

ALTHOUGH amaurosis due to quinine poisoning is now relatively rare, occasional cases still occur. When quinine is used as an abortifacient, the initial history may be misleading, as in the present case, but the presence of characteristic changes in the fundi usually enables one to be reasonably certain in arriving at a diagnosis. The present case is considered worthy of special record in view o...

Quinine Bihydrochloride v. Quinine Bisulphate

come across a medical man who avers that it is a useless salt of Quinine and that the only salt of anv use for injection is the Bisulpliate of Quinine, Now, from what I can remember of the Physiology of the Blood, I should have thought that the Bisulpliate was a much more foreign salt to the plasma than the Bihydrochloride. As far as I can remember the plasma contains Chlorides in abundance, bu...

Leber's congenital amaurosis.

rig. renpheralfundus cS. We have had occasion to see a similar case, first in 1974 when the patient, a black female with no apparent vision but otherwise well, was 6 months old. At that time dilated fundus examination under anaesthesia (EUA) was normal. Repeat EUA in 1977 at age 4 years revealed bilateral peripheral fundus lesions essentially identical to those described by Chew et al. (Figs. 1...

Adulterated Quinine

Deaii Sir,?"With reference to a correspondence which appeared in the Mirror of 12th instant, from Bhobun IVIohun Sircar, drawing attention to an article in the August number of the Indian Medical Gazette on the adulteration of quinine, I beg to offer a few remarks on the subject, and to ask your opinion if it is the duty of the Health Officer to suppress those frauds which are committed by the ...

Intramuscular Quinine