Intravenous Quinine in Malaria
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on intravenous quinine injections. As this place is a hotbed of malaria, I deal with several hundred malaria cases each year, and for the past few months I have been in the habit of giving quinine intravenously, having abandoned the intramuscular route as, in some cases, it resulted in abscesses. Since reading Dr. Vasavada's letter I have given more than a hundred intravenous quinine injections, using 2 c.c. of distilled water for five grains of quinine and 4 c.c. for ten grains, injecting very slowly, and in not
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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...
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