An alkaloid derived from the bark of the cinchona tree. It is used as an antimalarial drug, and is the active ingredient in extracts of the cinchona that have been used for that purpose since before 1633. Quinine is also a mild antipyretic and analgesic and has been used in common cold preparations for that purpose. It was used commonly and as a bitter and flavoring agent, and is still useful for the treatment of babesiosis. Quinine is also useful in some muscular disorders, especially nocturnal leg cramps and myotonia congenita, because of its direct effects on muscle membrane and sodium channels. The mechanisms of its antimalarial effects are not well understood.
    

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.

Bynin-Amara : "a distinct advance on Easton's Syrup." The Lancet : August 1910.

Malaria and quinine.

Quinine administration guide for children with malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

Fluscorbin : Vitamin C + quinine massive dose : attack treatment of colds and influenza.

Bynin-Amara : analogous to Easton's Syrup, but much easier of assimilation : July 1905.

The Antikamnia foetation and parturition chart / by Louis Crusius.

M0001771: Reproduction of the title page from De djamoer oepas-ziekte in het algemeen en bij kina in het bijzonder by Dr. A. Rant, 1911

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A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

Fluscorbin : Vitamin C + quinine massive dose : attack treatment of colds and influenza.

Bynin-Amara : analogous to Easton's Syrup, but much easier of assimilation : July 1905.

The Antikamnia foetation and parturition chart / by Louis Crusius.

M0001771: Reproduction of the title page from De djamoer oepas-ziekte in het algemeen en bij kina in het bijzonder by Dr. A. Rant, 1911