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Then is the time to take quinine in 

 Treatment. 



as large doses as the system will bear. 



Should no medical advice be at hand, and the 

 patient be alone in the bush, he cannot do wrong, 

 when in that stage, by taking quinine until his 

 head feels so dizzy that everything appears to 

 turn round, keeping himself covered up, and 

 only drinking hot weak lemonade, so as make him 

 perspire as much as possible. 



Sometimes the fever is killed at once by this 

 sharp bat severe treatment ; but at others, attack 

 comes after attack, and paroxysm follows pa- 

 roxysm, each one leaving the patient weaker than 

 the last, until the crisis is passed and the disease 

 wears itself out, and gradually becomes weaker 

 in its shocks, or, on the other hand, its victim 

 sinks under it, and passes away in a state of in- 

 sensibility. 



In tropical climates, delays are dan- 

 Precautions. 



gerous, and the slightest symptom 



should be immediately met with decided and 

 energetic treatment. Constant doses of quinine 



