Quinine in Ague
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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 the temperature of the body in this disease; unfortunately the chart accompanying this case was not published, for it would probably have demon-
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