90 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



5. Ague Pills, Very Cheap and Very Effective, Without 

 Quinine. — Chinoidine, 1 oz. ; do vers powders, 3 drs. ; piperine, 40 grs. ; sub 

 carbonate of iron, 2% drs.; stiff mucilage of gum arabic sufficient to work 

 *nto pills, and mix very intimately and make into usual sized pills. [The author 

 ■would say to make into 440 pills, to be sure to have 1 gr. of chinoidine in each 

 pill.] Dose. — Take 2 pills every 2 hours until 6 or 8 are taken, in the absence 

 of fever. After the first day 2 pills 3 times a day, just before meals, in the 

 absence of chills or fever. 



Remarks. — This recipe is decidedly a good one, either as an ague cure or a5 

 a general tonic. Chinoidine pills, however, in warm weather get soft and 

 should, therefore, have plenty of powdered liquorice root among them to pre- 

 vent their sticking together; but from this tendency the following, in liquid 

 form, may be preferable: 



6. Chinoidine for Ague— How to Give It.— C. E. Ellis, M. D., of 

 Gooch's Mill, Mo., in answer to an inquiry of Dr. A. Barry, of Dresden, Tex., 

 in The Brief, page 505, 1883, for "a convenient mode of administering chinoid- 

 ine," made the following answer: " The following is a prescription used by 

 my father and myself with no dissatisfaction from any patient, except one col- 

 ored woman, who complained of nausea after taking: Chinoidine, 2 ozs.; 

 alcohol, 1 pt. ; nitric acid, dilute (a formula druggists understand), 1 oz. ; aro- 

 matic syrup of rhei. (rhubarb), 8 ozs. ; water, 8 ozs. Mix. Dose. — When dis- 

 solved, take 1 tea-spoonful before meals and bedtime. If Dr. Barry will try 

 this mode of gi\ing the chinoidine he will find it all I recommend it to be. I 

 have used it a great deal, and I hope he may have as good success with it as I 

 have had." 



Remarks. — Being so much cheaper than quinine is the main reason for its 

 use. For those who oppose the use of quinine, and all similar ingredients, as 

 cinchonidia or chinoidine, and would like to try a novel, yet a simple, cure, I 

 give the following: 



7. Ague and Fever, Novel Ijut Simple Cure.— Take a medium- 

 sized nutmeg and char it by holding it to a flame by sticking a piece of wire 

 inside, permitting it to burn by itself without disturbance; when charred, pul- 

 verize it and combine with it an equal quantity of burned alum and divide into 

 three powders. On the commencement of the chill give a powder. If this 

 does not break it, give the second powder on the appearance of the next chill, 

 and if not cured the third powder must be given as the succeeding chill comes 

 on. Usually the first powder effects a cure, and it is seldom that the third pow- 

 der wall be required. The bowels should always be acted upon by a purgative 

 previous to their administration. It is certainly deserving attention, though I 

 do not pretend to account for its action. — Prof. King. 



Remarks. — Prof. King says he has "known it to have cured several cases 

 of intermittent fever" (fever and ague), and also says he has "been assured of 

 its almost universal success in this disease ; " and also adds that "it is recom* 

 mended for the cure of other forms of fever." I am, like himself, unable to 

 give a reason why or how it should so act; but that it has so acted I have not a 

 4oubt 



