QUINIA, EXTRACT OF
\kwˈɪniə], \kwˈɪniə], \k_w_ˈɪ_n_i__ə]\
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A preparation which consists in evaporating the liquor poured off the crystals of sulphate of quinia, to the consistence of a pilular mass. It has the properties of sulphate of quinia, and its active principle appears to be amorphous quinia or chinioidine. Twenty-four grains will generally arrest ague.
By Robley Dunglison
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