Definition of "quinia" []

• Quinine (noun)

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• "In its anti-periodic effects on the human system it has been found similar to quinia, and it is an undoubted narcotic poison acting on the nerves of organic life, though, compared with its associates in the drug, comparatively innocent."
• "The _sulphate of quinia_, in moderate doses, three or four times a day, with the usual attention to the febrile changes, gentle _aperients_, _effervescent_ and _acidulous_ drinks, taking care to prevent acridness in the stomach."
• "Having taken the _acclimating fever_ on the 5th of the month, the day I left Monrovia, and besides regularly a dessert spoonful of a solution of the sulphate of _quinia_ three times a day, and the night of my arrival two eight grain doses of Dover's Powder, the reference to "the state of my health" in the following correspondence, will be understood:"