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  • Later after one of her father's first unnatural outbreaks, she suffered a series of chills and her mother thought, of course, it was malaria; but many big doses of quinin did not break it up, and no matter when the doctor came, his little thermometer revealed no fever.

    Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

  • When worn to lightheadedness he drank _guaro_ and great quantities of black coffee; when ill he ate quinin.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Then, calmly equipping himself for his journey, he buried the repeating rifle and slipped away in the night, carrying with him Blake's quinin and revolver and pocket-filter.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • But he secretly took great doses of quinin and drank much native liquor.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Taste probably is better perceived, yet some newborn babies are said to suck a two per cent solution of quinin as eagerly as milk, though stronger solutions are distasteful.

    The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912

  • For the first time in his life he found his body shaken with fever and was compelled to use quinin in great quantities.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • In the examination of cases of the untoward effects of quinin upon the eye, Knapp of New York found the power of sight diminished in various degrees, and rarely amaurosis and immobility of the pupils.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The severe toxic symptoms from a whiff of cocain-spray, the acute distress from the tenth of a grain of morphin, the gastric crises and profuse urticarial eruptions following a single dose of quinin, -- all are proofs of it.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Dauboeuf, Garraway, 9.335 Hemming, 9.336 Skinner, 9.337 and Cöbner 9.338 mention roseola and scarlatiniform erythema after minute doses of quinin.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • In fact, at the present day in some parts of the South quinin is constantly kept on the table as a prophylactic constituent of the diet.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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