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ON AMORPHOUS QUININE. 
intelligence that the use of this remarkable remedy had been 
attended with immediate success, 
I now employ this substance only, to the exclusion of all 
other preparations from bark, quinine, &c, in all cases of in- 
termittent fever ; and I can boldly assert, that in the experi- 
ence of many years it has never disappointed me. It has 
this great and inestimable advantage, that one can deter- 
mine with absolute certainty, by administering it, that the 
recurrence of the attack shall be prevented. No other pre- 
paration of bark, and no other remedy that I know of, will 
enable us to say with positive certainty that the next ex- 
pected accession shall not take place. Moreover, it prevents 
the occurrence of relapses, more than any other,febrifuge ; 
and in many thousands of cases in which I have had occa- 
sion to employ it, I have never seen the cessation of the 
fever followed by unpleasant sequelse. My way of pre- 
scribing this remedy is in a spirituous solution, of which I 
mix one ounce, with acid of Haller, a drachm ; peppermint- 
water, three ounces. Of these drops, J give in quotidian 
fever a teaspoonful ever hour from the commencement of the 
perspiration ; in tertian, one every two hours ; in quartan, 
one every three hours. 
When the attacks have ceased, which I feel almost in- 
clined to assert is uniformly the result of the administration 
of this remedy, I always give a teaspoonful of the above 
mixture every night and morning, until there is no longer 
any fear of a relapse. 
I have also experienced the efficacy " of this remedy in 
fevers of a sporadic origin ; and I and many physicians of 
Berlin employ it as a tonic in all cases where we used to pre- 
scribe any of the other forms of bark. 
I will not presume to pronounce on the chemical nature 
of this uncrystalline body. I suspect that 'ehinoroth' plays 
an important part in it. 
Should you deem any further or more minute information 
respecting this matter desirable, I shall be happy to supply 
