In the persons thus attacked the lungs and
heart were healthy. Hemoptysis promptly ceased with the
suspension of the drug. When it was renewed, blood again appeared
in the sputa. Taussig mentions a curious mistake, in which an
ounce of quinin sulphate was administered to a patient at one
dose; the only symptoms noticed were a stuporous condition and
complete deafness. No antidote was given, and the patient
perfectly recovered in a week. In malarious countries, and
particularly in the malarial fevers of the late war, enormous
quantities of quinin were frequently given. 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.
Skinner noticed the occurrence of a scarlatiniform eruption in a
woman after the dose of 1/165 grain of strychnin, which, however,
disappeared with the discontinuance of the drug. There was a man
in London in 1865 who died in twenty minute's after the ingestion
of 1/2 grain of strychnin. Wood speaks of a case in which the
administration of 1/100 grain killed a child three and one-half
months old. Gray speaks of a man who took 22 grains and was not
seen for about an hour. He had vomited some of it immediately
after taking the dose, and was successfully treated with chloral
hydrate.
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