Show THE USE OF QUININE it streets on the human system when freely taken A blear eyed red nosed man with tears running down his cheeks walked into a new york pharmacy the other day and said 1 l wad thirty braids of quinide qui dide the druggist looked at him sharply and then went away to fill the order thag you said the blear eyed man as be swallowed halt a dozen little white pellets and walked out that will make his cars sing said the druggist and in all probability it will make him very dizzy it he has not been in the habit of using quinine in large quantities the drug is much abused every one uses it more or less and few people know its power the effects of a large dose of quinine frequently produce a delirium similar to that caused by alcoholic stimulants recently the new york sun printed a dispatch from sing sing about a fifteen year old girl who had been crazed by the drug she was a daughter of a well known resident of north tarrytown and had been suffering from neuralgia for several days she took a large dose of quinine and went to bed late in the evening she as found near the depot in a demented condition she was partly dressed and had walked from her parents home up the railroad track she had passed a number of trains in safety and when she was found she acted like a person from alcoholic delirium there is no doubt that the effects of a largo dose of quinine ate sometimes serious 1 said a physician to the sun reporter and I 1 now recall one case in particular it was during my service in A man was brought to the hospital and placed in the cells where patients T sut ering from delirium there were some peculiar features about the case and after an examination we sent him to tho insano ward ho acted like a crazy man after a few hours of treatment ho became quie tand we then learned that he had taken one hundred and fifty grains of quinine in fifteen grain doses within a few hours ho re from the effects of it after a very short time there is probably no drug 50 generally used for halt a dozen ailments as quinine while I 1 was south some time ago I 1 saw men take it bythe teaspoon tor malaria A person who has been taking quinine fop a long time does not mind having the ringing sensations in the ears and other symptoms that make themselves felt in a person who seldom uses tho drug ten grains will produce those symptoms in many people and if tho patient has been suffering from neuralgia for instance the amount of quinine will sometimes act jibo an alcoholic stimulant they will become lightheaded light headed and at times delirious li I 1 know a number of people in new york who Q quinine regularly and think that they could not live with but it I 1 dont think that it can be called a habit like the cocaine and morphine habits because it is not a drug that grows on one those people who take it regularly have some disease that they are treating in cases of malaria it is invaluable you linow that during the war it was worth its weight in gold quinine is now very cheap it is being cultivated in india and th elarge buan of it that are used nowadays make it a very krofl table product I 1 bave never known of dose af pf quinine producing death though undoubtedly it could be taken in such quantities as to her fatal |