Was It Malarious Fever or Sun-Stroke Cured by Quinine?

Strychnine in Fever

Sin,?Mr. Hall, of the Royal Artillery, in the last number of the Gazette, calls attention to the use of strychnine as a substitute for quinine in the treatment of malarious fevers, and " has never yet met with any mention, in books, of this medicine having been given as a substitute for quinine." In the Year Book of the new Sydenham Society for 1862, at page 51, there will be found a record of ...

Quinine in Ague

We are glad to find that so many of our most active and scientific medical officers in this part of India are anxious to add to our stock of knowledge by means of carefully recorded facts regarding the action of quinine in cases of malarious fever. In the Indian Medical Gazette for December last, Dr. J. Butler Hamilton, e.a., recorded a case of ague showing the action of quinine as influencing ...

A Case of Paraplegia Following Malarious Fever: Rapid Recovery under the Use of Quinine and Strychnine

Observations on the Action of the Darjeeling Cinchona Febrifuge in Malarious Fevers

purgatives are not often needed while it is being administered. The cinchona febrifuge is, I consider, a powerful antiperiodic. In the generality of febrile affections it produces all the effects seen usually to follow the use of quinine. The suitable cases, however, are mild uncomplicated malarial fevers. In the treatment of severe cases where large doses of an antiperiodic are essential, it w...

Small Doses of Antimony in Inflammations

fact that Dr. Kent Spender, of Bath, had pointed out in the March 1885 number of the Practitioner, that antimony in frequently repeated smnll doses ?th of a grain of tartar emetic, every hour or two hours, has the power of completely dissipating early local inflammations. Acting on Dr. Spender's suggestion, the treatment of surgical inflammation by antimony in small doses, frequently repeated, ...