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which have a combined area of 2,350 acres. 

 Prominent features of the city are the Federal 

 building, erected at a cost of $80,000, the 

 Thomas Crane Public Library, the Quincy 

 Mansion Girls' School, the Woodward School 

 for girls, and a hospital, the gift of W. B. Rice. 

 Although principally a residential city, Quincy 

 has an extensive granite-quarrying industry, a 

 large river shipbuilding plant employing over 

 4,000 men, and manufactories of yachts, foundry 

 products, gears, rivets and brass goods. 



In and about Quincy are many places of his- 

 tori< H is the birthplace of John Han- 



cock, John Adams and John Quincy Adams; 

 the Adamses are buried under the old Stone 

 Temple, or First Congregational Church (Uni- 

 tarian). Quincy was the home of Charles 

 <is Adams, and of Col. Francis Way land 

 Parker, who instituted noted educational re- 

 forms. The first railroad in New England was 

 built here in 1826-1827, to carry the granite 

 used in the construction of Bunker Hill Monu- 

 ment. The line was about four miles long and 

 was run by horse power. 



Quincy was settled in 1625 as Mount Wollas- 

 ton. Thomas Morton gained control of the set- 

 tlement about four years later and established 

 the famous "New England Canaan," or "Merry- 

 mount." He fostered "Maypoles" and other 

 "idolls" obnoxious to the Pilgrims, and was 

 consequently captured by Miles Standish and 

 sent back to England. The settlement was a 

 part of Braintree until 1792, when it was incor- 

 porated and named in honor of John Quincy. 

 It became a city in 1888. J.O.H. 



Consult Wilson's Where American Independence 

 Began; Adams's Three Episodes of Massachu- 

 setts History. 



QUININE, kwi'nine, or kwincen', an ex- 

 ceedingly letter medicine obtained by a secret 

 process from the bark of trees of the cinchona 

 species, found native in South America and 

 grown in India and other tropical countries (see 

 \). Quinine is especially valuable as 

 a remedy for malaria (which see), and for re- 

 r temperature to normal. It is a 

 ' stimulant and general tonic through its 

 power of increasing the flow of the digestive 

 ".. Large doses cause ringing in the ears, 

 mess and headache, and dangerously affect 

 Mood pressure, even causing death, and tin 

 should be taken only as prescribed by a 

 reliable physician. Pure quinine forms silky. 

 needlelike crystals which unite with acids to 



i salts. It is one of the most efiV. 

 drugs. See MKDKINK AND 



QUINSY, kwin'zi, a form of sore throat 

 which usually results in the formation of an 

 abscess in the region of the tonsils. One or both 

 sides may be affected. It is caused by exposure 

 to cold or dampness, and begins with chills, 

 exhaustion, fever and pain in the throat. As 

 the disease progresses the affected tonsil swells 

 until swallowing and even opening the mouth 

 become exceedingly difficult and painful. In 

 severe cases the patient has alternate chills and 

 sweats, and at night becomes delirious. Though 

 the ailment is not usually fatal, generally end- 

 ing in from five to eight days with the bursting 

 of the abscess, there are cases on record of 

 death by suffocation, caused by the bursting of 

 the abscess while the patient was asleep. If 

 taken in t'me an attack can often be promptly 

 checked. The patient should rest quietly in 

 bed, gargle the throat and take purgatives and 

 a dose of quinine. A developed case needs the 

 attention of a reliable physician. Lancing the 

 abscess and draining out the pus, if done by a 

 competent doctor, always bring immediate re- 

 lief. Quinsy does not usually attack children 

 or people past forty, but the same person may 

 suffer from recurring attacks. It is generally 

 advisable to remove diseased tonsil-. 



QUINTILIAN, k win til' i an (MARCUS FABIUS 

 giiMii.i \\rs) (about A.D. 35-about 97), a 

 Roman rhetorician, born at Calagurris, in 

 Spain. Information about the events of his life 

 is meager, but it is probable that his family 

 removed to Rome while he was but a boy, and 

 that there he grew to manhood. After spend- 

 ing some years in Spain he returned in 68 to 

 Rome with Galba, and began to practice as an 

 advocate. It was as the head of a school of 

 oratory that he was best known, however, and 

 Vespasian created for him a liberally endowed 

 chair of rhetoric. He taught for about twenty 

 years, and after his retirement spent two years 

 in the composition of his great work the 

 InstittUio Oratorio, an exhaustive system of 

 rhetoric. The twelve books which compose the 

 Institutio deal with the training of a would-be 

 orator from infancy, and demand for him an 

 all-embracing education. Quint Mian's literary 

 judgments are most tr-;.'-uul sympathetic, and 

 the character which he shows is unusually at- 

 tractive. There are extant 164 declamations 

 which are credited to Quintilian, but their 

 authorship is by no means certain 



QUIRINAL, kwir'inal, or kwiri'nal, a fa- 

 mous hill of ancient Rome, apart from tin 

 ..Id- Seven Hill-. I'ut included in 



th.- aiea within the Servian Wall. On it in the 



