Quinine as a prophylactic against malarial fever : being an appendix to the third report on typhoid and malarial fevers, delivered to the Surgeon General of the late C.S.A., August, 1864 / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1867
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Quinine as a prophylactic against malarial fever : being an appendix to the third report on typhoid and malarial fevers, delivered to the Surgeon General of the late C.S.A., August, 1864 / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    18/20 (page 20)
    taken ill until thirty days afterwards. With the exception of these two persons the boat’s crew on the second expedition were made, up of Kroomen, who, as usual, entirely escaped. On these expeditions, an ounce of quinine wine was given to the white men daily during their absence from the ship ; but it appears to have been discontinued on their return. In January the boats of this vessel were again detached to cruise in the Congo, but did not proceed more than 40 miles up the river. Quinine was given to the men during their absence and for 14 days after their return. The same precaution was adopted after any subsequent exposure to malaria in the river, and no case of fever followed. The Bloodhound was employed in January in the River Benin, and during July in the Congo ; as long as she remained within these rivers, and for ten days afterwards, four grains of quinine in a quarter of a gill of rum, was administered to every white man on board. One case only resulted from these two expedi- tions ; and in that instance, the person attacked had exposed himself in a most imprudent manner while shooting wild fowl amidst the slimy ooze in the mangrove thickets on the banks of the Benin ; whether the patient took quinine as a preventive is not mentioned. Three boats from the Childers went up the Congo, as far as Punto da Linha, and were absent for several days ; quinine was administered to the white men, and no fever resulted. In May, two boats were sent from the Hecla up the river Nu- nez, and returned on the following day. Quinine wine was issued in the usual manner, and no febrile disease followed. In July, the same vessel entered the Sherbro, and subsequently her boats, containing fifty-six seamen and marines, with the usual number of officers, ascended the river to the village Victoria— they returned the same evening and rejoined the vessel, which remained in the river for a few days longer. Quinine in rum (the quinine wine having been all used) was given to the crew while she remained in the river, and for fourteen days after she went to sea. “ Eight cases of intermitting fever,” the surgeon remarks, “ were added to the list a few days after our departure; they were, however, all mild, and terminated favorably, after an