Weak, relaxed, emaciated, pale, with feeble heart, feeble circulation and tendency to dropsy. A peculiar thing about this dropsy is, that it comes after hemorrhage. This is the typical China patient. Catarrhal condition of all mucous membranes. Gastro-duodenal catarrh, ending in jaundice.
Old liver subjects with jaundice.
They have lived for a long time under the influence of the malarial miasm. Feeble, sensitive, anemic. We see such cases in the South and Southwest, and long the Mississippi Valley. Periodicity is the symptom upon which Quinine is given. China has periodicity, but in no greater degree than many other remedies and is not so frequently indicated as routine prescribers suppose.