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of quinine morning and evening and 5 gr. of phen- 

 acetin middle day, besides repeated doses of brandy 

 and condensed milk, mixed and fairly strong. On 

 about the eighth or ninth day the fever had abated, 

 but the animal was so weak that careful dieting and 

 nursing had to be kept up for several days, after 

 which recovery was very rapid. 



On the whole, though, perhaps they suffer more 

 from the bites of ticks than from malaria, and they 

 should be continually overhauled and these pests 

 removed. Tick fever in dogs can now be cured with 

 injection of trypanblan. 



The Daily Preventive. — Medical men seem very 

 much at variance with many experienced travellers 

 in regard to the daily taking of quinine as a pre- 

 ventive. 



The argument is that, if 2, 3, or 5 gr. are taken 

 daily, there is always the drug in the blood, and when 

 the germs of malaria are introduced into the system the 

 quinine is there to combat them. This may be so, but 

 the other side say that if the system is saturated 

 with a drug and the subject does get the fever, it 

 takes a pretty considerable dose to break it down. 



There is no doubt, without exceptional luck, that 

 sooner or latter every one residing or travelling in a 

 fever belt will catch it, whether they take a preventive 

 or not. 



The author's non-professional experience has been 

 that the majority of malarial cases can be broken in 



