antiperiodic

It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.

In the typho-malarial form, especially in those cases in which the malarial element predominates, and in which there is a marked tendency to remission, the early administration of quinia in full antiperiodic doses is urgently called for.

If the physician elects to give his antiperiodic in one or two large doses, he should not trust to so small an amount as eighteen grains.

In the class of cases characterized by sharp chills, intense fever, irregular remissions, and profuse perspiration, which pursue a pernicious course unaffected by antiperiodic remedies, the nature is extremely dubious.

At first the temperature tables indicate the prevalence of milk fever; next follow cases closely resembling those of mild paludal poisoning; and, finally, if these warnings are unheeded and reliance is placed upon antiperiodic remedies rather than upon prompt closure of the threatened ward, the pestilence develops.