Coms^onDetice. THE SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION OF QUININE. To the Editor 07 the
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in various places the origination of the method of using quinine by subcutaneous injection attributed to several gentlemen. I am therefore desirous of stating, that I first used quinine in the manner alluded to, when Assistant-Surgeon in the European General Hospital, Bombay, in 1862. The proofs are as follows. A paper on the subject to the Bombay Medical and Physical Society in March 1863 (vide Society's Journal for that year), and an article forwarded shortly afterwards to the Lancet, and published in the Lancet of 12th August 1863. The following are the opening paras, of the said article :? 4i Since the year 1858, when l)r. Wood brought forward the hypodermic injection of morphia, the plan has been extensively tried. Moreover the results following the injection of morphia into the subcutaneous areolar tissue have on the whole been satisfactory, and the use of the alkaloid in this manner has now become an established practice in various obstinate painful disorders. Other agents as atropine have also been used hypodermically with varied succes?, and I have latterly employed a strong solution of quinine for the cure of intermittent and remittent fever by the method of subcutaneous injection. The success which has attended this practice renders me desirous of calling attention to thi? novel method of using quinine." I then mention cases ; the manner of preparing the solution ; the method of injecting ; and the precautions to be taken, &c. &c. As the subcutaneous injection of quinine has been extensivly adopted ; as it has undoubtedly saved lives which would otherwise have been lost ; and as it has diminished the expenditure of that costly drug, I am desirous that whatever small credit may attach to the origination of the method may be rightly bestowed. If any one can show, that the matter was brought forward before the dates quoted above, I shall of course willingly resign my claims. I am, &c-> W. J. Moore,
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Deputy Surgeon- General, Presidency Division, Bombay*
Bombay, August, 1881. ,
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in various places the origination of the method of using quinine by subcutaneous injection attributed to several gentlemen. I am therefore desirous of stating, that I first used quinine in the manner alluded to, when Assistant-Surgeon in the European General Hospital, Bombay, in 1862. The proofs are as follows. A paper on the subject to the Bombay Medical and Physical Society in March 1863 (vide Society's Journal for that year), and an article forwarded shortly afterwards to the Lancet, and published in the Lancet of 12th August 1863. The following are the opening paras, of the said article :? 4i Since the year 1858, when l)r. Wood brought forward the hypodermic injection of morphia, the plan has been extensively tried. Moreover the results following the injection of morphia into the subcutaneous areolar tissue have on the whole been satisfactory, and the use of the alkaloid in this manner has now become an established practice in various obstinate painful disorders. Other agents as atropine have also been used hypodermically with varied succes?, and I have latterly employed a strong solution of quinine for the cure of intermittent and remittent fever by the method of subcutaneous injection. The success which has attended this practice renders me desirous of calling attention to thi? novel method of using quinine." I then mention cases ; the manner of preparing the solution ; the method of injecting ; and the precautions to be taken, &c. &c. As the subcutaneous injection of quinine has been extensivly adopted ; as it has undoubtedly saved lives which would otherwise have been lost ; and as it has diminished the expenditure of that costly drug, I am desirous that whatever small credit may attach to the origination of the method may be rightly bestowed. If any one can show, that the matter was brought forward before the dates quoted above, I shall of course willingly resign my claims. I am, &c-> W. J. Moore,
Sib,?I have
seen
Deputy Surgeon- General, Presidency Division, Bombay*
Bombay, August, 1881. ,
