Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An older name for quinine.
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- noun (Chem.) Quinine.
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- noun chemistry, archaic
quinine
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Examples
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Still more recently, quinia taking the place of Peruvian bark, the old plan of administering large doses has been resumed.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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Monerat, and Legroux, renewed the use of this medicine in the form of quinia, but gave it in smaller doses, seeking only its tonic effect, from five to fifteen grains being administered in the course of twenty-four hours, and then it was still continued in smaller doses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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The _sulphate of quinia_, in moderate doses, three or four times a day, with the usual attention to the febrile changes, gentle _aperients_, _effervescent_ and _acidulous_ drinks, taking care to prevent acridness in the stomach.
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany
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After an interval of seven days, repeated the quinia, and so on.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various
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The alkalies must be gradually discontinued, but the quinia continued.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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In its anti-periodic effects on the human system it has been found similar to quinia, and it is an undoubted narcotic poison acting on the nerves of organic life, though, compared with its associates in the drug, comparatively innocent.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Having taken the _acclimating fever_ on the 5th of the month, the day I left Monrovia, and besides regularly a dessert spoonful of a solution of the sulphate of _quinia_ three times a day, and the night of my arrival two eight grain doses of Dover's Powder, the reference to "the state of my health" in the following correspondence, will be understood:
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany
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Gained rapidly (after washing him out with hot water, and getting his urine clear and bowels open every day) on two grains of quinia every day, two hours, till sixteen doses were taken.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various
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Dispensatory: “A stimulant tonic, acting also as a diaphoretic or diuretic, according to the mode of its application; *** also been highly recommended in intermittent fevers, and though itself generally inadequate to the cure often proves serviceable as an adjunct to Peruvian bark or sulphate of quinia.”
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_Internally_, a purge, followed by the tincture of the chloride of iron and quinia, and stimulants if needed.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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