The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)
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The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2
Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)
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CASE 4.--After the use of the remedies for one week the investigator
still found young rings half-grown and gametes present in the blood.
Apparently there was a relative increase in the number of parasites.
He then began the administration of quinin. Blood-smears taken the
next day after 40 grains of quinin had been taken showed one parasite
after eighteen minutes’ search of one slide, and two after thirty
minutes’ search of a second slide. At the end of a week’s treatment
the patient was discharged recovered. The blood examination of two
slides was negative.
CASE 5.--This was a case of tertian malaria. After treatment for
five days with Sinkina the blood still showed tertian parasites with
increase in the size of the spleen, and the preparation was without
effect on the clinical course of the disease. Quinin was then begun,
and the blood examination became negative at the end of three days.
The investigator concludes that the preparations furnished him were
absolutely worthless in the treatment of two cases of the tertian
form of malarial fever, and that these solutions had no effect on the
presence of the parasites in the peripheral circulation. In a case
of quartan malaria, both of the preparations (cumin oil mixture and
Sinkina), sent by the Association Laboratory, were without effect on
the plasmodia in the blood. This investigator employed the solution
made by the Association Laboratory (cumin oil mixture) as well as
Sinkina, and was unable to note any differences between them.
THIRD INVESTIGATION
The third investigator began the trial of Sinkina at the instance of
the manufacturers, and used it in three cases, two of them being benign
tertian malaria and one case of mixed infection (benign tertian and
estivo-autumnal).
CASE 6.--This was one of the cases of benign tertian malaria. The
patient gave a clinical history of malaria with chills occurring
on alternate days for a little over a week. There was an immediate
cessation of all clinical symptoms, and three days after the patient
had been on 1/2 ounce of Sinkina three times daily there was no
evidence of any plasmodia in his blood; his additional treatment
consisted of 5 grains of calomel the evening of the first day
with a saline the next morning. Before the patient was put on
treatment, numerous parasites of both the asexual and sexual forms
were observed. The patient remained in bed for a few days, and then
returned to work. A week later he was again taken ill with a return
of all of his previous clinical symptoms.
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