QUININE AS AN ABORTIFACIENT.

Is Quinine an Abortifacient?

seems hardly tenable with the evidence before one, which is to be found in more recent medical publications; and, although what I can produce is undoubtedly limited in amount, and very often imperfect from being merely abstracts of more detailed papers, it is still sufficient to show how diversified are the opinions held on these points, and also that the influence of quinine on the womb must b...

Monkey anti-placental serum as an abortifacient.

The abortifacient effect of antiplacental sera was confirmed with the use of goat and rabbit anti-Rhesus monkey placental globulin (IgG). To induce abortion, a total of 600-1000 mg IgG (from goats and rabbits treated to produce antiplacental sera) was injected intravenously over 3 days into 9 monkeys at 39-54 days of gestation. As a control a similar dose of normal goat globulin was injected ...

Female pills and the reputation of iron as an abortifacient.

"FEMALE PILLS" or other internal medicines for "complaints peculiar to females" formed a small but distinct group among the medicines advertised in eighteenthcentury newspapers. There were, for instance, six such preparations found in a sample of Bath newspapers in the second half of the eighteenth century and one of them, Hooper's Female Pills, was the fourth most frequently advertised among t...

[On poisoning with parsley used as an abortifacient].

Infarction Following the Use of an Abortifacient