The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. journal also has a website. Free full text access available for all readers.The Lanka Child Health now indexed SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Database), DOAJ Google, as well Google S...

The relative effectiveness of the various cinchona alkaloids in the treatment of malaria has been the subject of numerous investigations since the meeting of the Madras Commission in 1868 (1). Without exception, studies undertaken prior to the recent war involved the appraisal of the comparative antimalarial activities of quinine, quinidine, cinchonine and cinchonidine on the basis of the oral ...