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QUININE AND UEEA HYDROCIILORIDE contains 60 

 per cent of anhydrous quinine and is relatively non- 

 irritating. It is readily used by hypodermic injection 

 in the treatment of malaria, and the dosage is that 

 of the other quinine salts. This product may be 

 used internally just as are other salts. 



Applied to mucous membranes, this salt is locally 

 anesthetic in solutions of a strength of ten to twenty 

 per cent. It is inferior to cocaine as a local anes- 

 thetic but serves a useful purpose, especially since 

 the anesthesia is very lasting. This is an advantage 

 in treating painful affections, but a disadvantage 

 when mere transient anesthesia is desired. 



By hypodermic injection the anesthesia is very 

 prolonged, sometimes persisting for several days; 

 but the salt is very irritating to some of the tissues, 

 producing fibrous indurations. This property is 

 made use of by some surgeons in the treatment of 

 hemorrhoids and goiter. Be sure to employ only 

 the best of technic, as outlined in recent text-books 

 on surgery. One per cent solutions are as strong 

 as should be injected for the production of local 

 anesthesia, and even this strength is very apt to 

 be irritating. Many cases have been reported in 

 which trouble arose from the use of this percentage 

 in the production of local anesthesia. 



For the general practitioner of medicine, and 

 especially when the tissues are of low vitality, it is 

 well to use a 0.25 per cent solution; but one of 0.50 

 per cent is usually considered safe. 



RESORCINOL 



RESORCIN. This agent was first separated from 

 galbanum resin, and it has also been extracted from 

 ammoniacum, guaiacum, asafetida, and other vege- 



