Quinine Prophylaxis and Other Notes on Malaria
نویسنده
چکیده
1. " Quinine for prophylaxis will be issued in packets of 4 ozs. of quinine mixed with 1^lbs. of magnesium sulphate. This, dissolved in 1^ gallons of water, with the aid of sulphuric acid, gives a quinine content of approximately 10 grains to the ounce and is sufficient for 200 men. E. I. jugs will be provided for preparing the mixture, and a mark should be made at the 1^ gallons level." (Note.?Mixing quinine with magnesium sulphate not only tends to keep the bowels open, but renders the quinine unsaleable.) The paper packets are enclosed in cotton bags, in case of breakage between the dispensary and the medical inspection room. A further simplification would be to include citric acid in the
منابع مشابه
Clinical Pharmacology of the Antimalarial Quinine in Children
Quinine is the best studied drug for treating severe malaria in very young children. Quinine may be administered in pregnancy and, at therapeutic doses, malformations have not been reported. Some strains of quinine from Southeast Asia and South America have become resistant. Quinine is the treatment of choice for the drug-resistant severe Plasmodium falciparum. The antimalarial mechanism of qui...
متن کاملQuinine Prophylaxis in Malaria
In the effect of quinine on the malarial parasite we have perhaps the most remarkable example of the specific action of a drug in the whole range of medicine and one which has stood the test of two and a half centuries. Yet we have the apparent paradox of the frequently reported failure of the drug prophylactically against malaria. It is abundantly proved that when a primary infection of malari...
متن کاملThe Prevention of Malaria in Cantonments
wide subject of the prevention of malaria in cantonments, limiting the remarks to the measurement of malaria, reduction of breeding places of anophelines, relapses and their prevention, and quinine prophylaxis. Malaria is, throughout our Indian Empire, the dominating cause of inefficiency in troops in both peace and war. In peace it always heads the list of diseases in both European and Indian ...
متن کاملEvaluation of malaria cases in individuals after traveling to endemic regions of the world.
AIM This study evaluates types of malaria and treatment success in a series of identified cases among individuals who were presumed to have travelled to regions where malaria is endemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS In Sema Hospital, 25 cases of malaria (5 in women, 20 in men) were diagnosed during the 6-year period between 2006 and 2012. The mean age of the patients was 34.5 years. Diagnoses were e...
متن کاملQuinine in Malarial Prophylaxis
David Bruce a very pertinent demand for positive proof of the prophylactic value of quinine against malaria. So many of the senior medical officers in military employ share Sir David Brace's scepticism, while so many of their contemporaries in civil employ held a contrary view, that I venture to submit the grounds on which my own profound distrust of the treatment is based. One of my predecesso...
متن کامل