Intramuscular Quinine
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is so strenuous that we may soon expect to see the subject filmed, and the sadistic character of the exponents of this method of treatment shown up by lime-light. I am surprised that hitherto no one has had the temerity to break a lance on the subject, and I can only conclude the reason to be that the practice of intramuscular injections appears to be almost universal in malarial countries, but that those who use it have little to reply to theorists but continue to use it, satisfied with their clinical results. 1 have used intramuscular injections of quinine for nineteen years, being taught how to give them by Dr. Valentine, then medical officer to the North Cachar Tea Estates, and in that time I have given many hundreds, for in my early days I gave them much more freely than I now recognise to be necessary, and in no ?single case have I experienced any distressing result. Many hundreds also have been given by my subordinate staff, and I have never seen an injection go wrong, save when, agsinst my instructions, it has been given in the arm. There are few operations, or treatments, which cannot be shown on occasion to result in failure or consequential damage, and such will be more frequent if treatment is carried out improperly. An intramuscular
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To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Having read the letter by Dr. D. M. Vasavada in your issue for October 1930 on intravenous quinine, j. am prompted to write to you to emphasise the value o intramuscular injections of quinine in malaria. TllC intramuscular injection is not followed by the fall i11 blood-pressure which occurs with intravenous injeC" lions, the method is easy and sa...
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