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...secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae???introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dutch Monopoly | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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