Strychnine in Fever
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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 8 cures of tertian and quartan ague cured out of 13 treated, and so effectually did the strychnine act that there was no case of relapse out of this number.
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