| Show QUININES QUININE S HISTORY now how its ita aso supplanted the old 7 time 11 rae practice ot of an important epoch in the career of dr maillot a distinguished french physician who died in paris lately at the age of ninety nine years illustrated us the great timidity of medical science in balrin taking up a new method of treatment or abandoning an old one dr maillot is known to the medical world as the practical introducer into french practice of the use of quinine in the treatment of malarial and other fevers in 1832 when the french were conducting a campaign of conquet conquest in in algeria the mortality among the troops and colonists there was frightful sa says Ys pearsons lVe weekly ekly france was being c lineally called upon for fresh levies of men and youths to supply f V a terrible loss chiefly through fever incidental to the climate I 1 and the life the F rench french in algeria were leading at that time the practice of bleeding still prevailed deed bleed them until they are white was the injunction which bry als the medical master of the r gave to his followers when the condition of the soldier was reported to him at done bone in in one year out of an effective force of alft fifty five buu areil mun men eleven hundred died of illness in the tha ho hospital spital at that time the effects effect of snIp sulphate hato of quinine were known but few physicians ventured to employ it maillot had bad interested himself in the new remedy and going to done in the medical service of the government he resolved to see if it would not reduce the frightful mortality which N yas was one to every three and a half men who aba entered the hospital at first he employed the quinine merely as an all adjunct to the bleeding he soon found that bleeding was killing the men nna and that quinine was saving them little by chittle he left off bleeding I 1 to the great scandal of the medical profession exactly in proportion as the bleeding ceased the deaths in the hospital decreased Fe decreased creased in two years the deaths fell off from ono one in three and a half of all who entered the hospital to one in twenty six and finally to one in forty si six I 1 I 1 maillot quite naturally enough grew 1 to be the opponent of bleeding but he was wa s so ceaselessly villi fied by members of tho the medical profession that he became embittered toward his colleagues nearly thirty years passed before maillot saw the complete triumph of his ideas doctors continued to bleed their patients heartily for all manner of ills lint but in maillot was made commander of the legion of honor and chief of the medical staff of the french army and his influence with others in bringing about a virtual revolution in the practice of medicine was fully recognized |
