SCIATIC PARALYSIS FROM QUININE INJECTIONS

Intramuscular Quinine Injections in Malaria

to disappear completely. (d) Gentle massage is very essential after injection. (?) Too strong a solution gives pain. I always inject 5 grs. in 20 minims of distilled water. If this dose is not sufficient, it may be repeated. Whenever I used a stronger solution it invariably gave a certain amount of pain(/) The puncture should be sealed with compound benzoin tincture or collodiuin flexile. Simpl...

Quinine Sulphate for Intramuscular Injections

Sir,?Owing to the shortage of quinine by-hydrochloride may we draw attention to the following method of using quinine sulphate for intramuscular injections which we have found to be successful in malaria ? About 6,000 injections have been given in the past 12 months without any abscess formation and the therapeutic results have been as satisfactory as quinine bi-liydrochloride. Even infants, a ...

Quinine Sulphate for Intramuscular Injections

Quinine-Urea Injections in Malaria

To the Editor, The Indian Medicai, Gazette. Sir,?In continuation of my previous letters on this subject, my attention has been arrested by the following passage in Messrs. Parke Davis and Co.'s Index of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1927, at the foot of p. 107. "The combination of quinine and urea is said to be superior to any single quinine salt in malaria (Brit. Med. Jour., Epitome, 1908. ...

Sciatic nerve paralysis following anticoagulant therapy.

A woman aged sixty-seven was admitted to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in November 1970 with severe mitral incompetence following a myocardial infarction in March 1970. In January 1971 she underwent mitral valve replacement (Starr-Edwards) and as a routine post-operative measure she was given Warfarin. Her progress was uneventful for the first fourteen days after operation and the anticoagulation a...