Plasmochin Compositum in the Treatment of Malaria *Published by permission of the Director of Medical Services, India.
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IT has been shown by numerous observers that plasmochin combined with quinine is far more effective in subtertian malaria than quinine alone. In the present paper I propose to offer a rational explanation for these observed facts, and to quote further cases in support of these observations. That quinine has very, little effect, if any, in destroying the crescentic gametocytes of 1\ falciparum is universally accepted at the present day. Dr. Manson-Bahr of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has stated that it actually " encourages the formation of crescents "f (Lancet, 7th January, 1928, p. 25.) I have also observed the same fact as in the case of Nursing Orderly Kidar Singh, quoted in a former paper (Indian Med. Gas., May, 1928), in whose blood parasites were found after he had taken 510
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