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Excerpt from Periodic Drug Disorders
Salts of quinia are protoplasmic poisons, arresting amoeboid and the allied movements of the white cor puscles even weak solutions are highly poisonous to protozoa and infusoria (binz) more so even than salts of strychnia and Morphia. - Many believe even that the good Quinine may do in malarial fevers is owmg to its capacity of destroying those malarial germs - Of all the agencies then ever capable of producmg paroxysms of intermittent fevers, or some Similar disorder, one should have thought Quinine and Morphine to be the last Yet there is the indisputable fact before us, that Quinine is a most potent agent to te-awaken the latent germs of malaria, and that Morphia is capable of producing paroxysms of intermittent fever in the healthy Arsenic is another drug known to be a protoplasmic poison, and yet, a glance at the Section of Periodic Drug Fevers, Will shew how fruitful this drug 18, in produc ing periodic febrile attacks.
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