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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name of a product of the union of quinine and β-naphthol sulphonate, offered for medicinal use in typhoid fever, intestinal tuberculosis, dysentery, etc. Also chinaphthol.

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  • noun medicine A treatment for typhoid fever etc, prepared from quinine and naphthol sulfonate

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