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the sweating stages (modifications and differences in this 
respect may exist, but as a general definition, it will be un- 
derstood). The sweating stage is the last stage, from which 
the ordinary functions peculiar to the body gradually return 
to their normal state. When the malady is severe, and 
effects the system for a long period, disease, we are told, is 
liable to supervene within the internal viscera ; the appear- 
ances in fatal cases upon dissection, being congestion and 
enlargement of the liver and spleen — pulmonary congestion 
— also congestion of the brain, spinal cord, &c. Now let us 
see how the physiological action of cinchona stands with 
regard to this malady. 
Stahl, in his e Diss. Problem, de Febribus,’ states that it 
causes irregular acute fever, with very excessive perspirations. 
Morton states the same ; Schlegel says that it causes febrile 
heat, that is followed by debilitating perspiration. — ( Huff- 
land’s Journal,’ vol. 7, part iv, p. l6l. 
Fr. Joseph Wittman, in an essay on sulphate of quinine, 
that obtained a prize. May 21, 1825, from the Medical and 
Scientific Society of Haerlem, details many experiments in 
which it is shown that, when administered in certain doses to 
a person in health, it produces a disease resembling ague . 
Professors Liiders, physician to the hospital at Kiel, states, 
that enlargements of the spleen, dropsy of the feet, and 
nervous disorders, often follow the incautious use of quinine. 
— Med. Chirurgical Journal of Erhardt, vol. iv. p. 90. 
Again, Menard says, that 30 to 40 grains, given in cases 
of intermittent fever, will almost certainly cause enlarge- 
ments of the liver and spleen, or dropsy, and he advises that 
the largest doses shall not exceed 10 or 12 grains. — Bulletin 
de la Soc. d’ Emulation de Paris , Janvier 1821 . 
Two years later than this, or in 1823, Menard, in the 
Itevue Medicate of the month of November, repeats his state- 
ments, ^wherein he remarks that several cases had come under 
his observation, where the paroxysms of intermittent or 
remittent fevers had been speedily cut short by the exhibition 
of quinine in large doses ; but after several days, the disease 
had sometimes returned, and attacks of inflammation or 
engorgements of the liver or spleen had frequently supervened 
on the sudden arrest of the febrile paroxysms. He states that 
he has observed inflammation and obstructions of these 
organs to have been so frequently followed by dropsical 
affections, that he considers these last diseases to have become 
more common since quinine has been generally employed. 
Dr. Parr says, that large doses of bark causes those infar- 
cations styled ague cakes, i. e. engorgements and enlarge- 
ments of the liver and spleen. — Med. Diet. vol. i, p. 825. 
