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ease, excited by Quinine, which was more potent than the 
intermittent, and without which it could not have been beaten 
down and suspended. If, in some instances, the constitution 
throws off this new disease after many weeks, the intermittent 
fever, which was only suspended, reappears in a more severe 
form, because the organism has been so much injured by the 
treatment it has undergone. 
“Tf the China is long continued, to prevent the return of the 
intermittent according to received opinions, then a chronic 
Quinine disease is established. 
“This is the nature of the greater part of the alleged cures 
effected by Quinine ; because our practitioners do not know in 
what cases this medicine is really appropriate. In the sup- 
pression or suspension of the primitive disorder, by exciting a 
more powerful Quinine disease, they behold only the obstinacy 
of the former, the development of its symptoms, and its inhe- 
rent malignity, because they are ignorant of its true source, and 
do not consider it a fictitious disease, such as it really is. 
“The study of the symptoms of Quinine in healthy persons 
can alone open the perception of those who are not deaf to the 
Voice of conscience, and who seek to benefit their fellow-crea- 
tures. But what is least excusable, is the abuse of Quinine, in 
all cases of debility, as is practised and esteemed rational by 
the prevalent school. 
“As all diseases are followed by weakness, and may by allo- 
pathic treatment be brought to the point of total exhaustion, 
there are scarcely any in which attempts have not been made to 
fortify the strength by large doses of Quinine, either as infu- 
sions, decoctions, extract, electuary, or in powder. It is 
lavishly used for weeks and months as the chief blessing of the 
invalid. 
“If the tables of mortality could speak, they would terrify us 
by the recital of the mischiefs caused by this abuse. Nor should 
we be less shocked, if we could see the list of those condemned 
for the remainder of their lives to the torments of asthma, 
