The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
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 In an article published in Penn- sylvania Med. Jour. some years ago pr. Alexander Sterling advocated making the prophylact ctic use of qut-, nine compulsory during an epi- den1ic of flu. \ k.
 In the past year or two the Sfed-, eral government has acquired and stored in the Treasury 8,500O 900 ounces of quinir1e, not 50 much in preparation for the next flu .epi- dennic but perhaps just in case of a South American campaign there being still great deal of malaria endemic or, constantly recurring in parts of South America. Besides, I have been urging in this column for quite a while now the efficacy of two grains of Quinine. three times Q day as a apreventive against the cri,, and Uncle Sam reads the pa- perS. " R& F55f t4
 There are 1000 grains in a pound or 16 ounces figure for yourself how much quinine in the govern ment's store for each person in the country. I dare not, my arithmetic is too treacheroliS. HUM
 If. everybody. in the country were to begin taking two grains of Qui- nine three times 8 day and keep it, I'D for, say, four weeks, that might make a noticeable hole In the 265 ton pile, what? If I'm Q ton or two off in my computation what's ton of quiriine between friends?
 Come to think of 1t, a large por- ton of the population, probably two-thirds or more, would not re- Quire two grains three times 8 day, to gain the immunity that Quinine gives against what the unenlight- ened call tcolds'' (many of them, I suspect, because they are Incer- tain about the pronunciation of cri-kree). One grain of Quinile sulfate, in pill, tablet or capsule, three times 8 day, preferably after food, would be sufficient for chill dren up to the weight of 75 pounds The dose of medicine for a child is better determined in proportion with body weight than according to age. If the child weigh 0ne-half of the average adult weight, one-half of the adult dose is correct.
 In the monograph "Qutnine In Modern Medicine" (for copy send stamped envelope bearing your address, I acknowledge that we do not know how. Quinine aids the body's defenses against pneumonia, flu and the other respiratory infec- tions. But physicians the world over prescribe this prophylactic use of qrinine in time of cri epide- mic and people everywhere find 1t effective. In 8 test recently re ported $500 employees of a large industrial plant each took Q five grain tablet of quinine sulfate each morning and $500 other employees each took g similar tablet contain ing only sodium bicarbOnate each morning, for q period of two weeks, during an influenza epidemic. Only one-fourth as many of the en- ployees who took quinine developed the flu as employees who took so- dium bicarbonate.
 Within the past two years a ra- tional scientific explanation of Che prophylactic and remedial action of quinirie against the flu has been advanced. We1i talk about 1t ar-s other day. ; '3
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 MongOlisn Idlocy
 First child normal. Second child died eleven days after birth, cer- tificate said llndeyeloped Mongoltan. idiot. Would a third child be like. ly to inherit the strain?
 31&. (Mrs. w. A.. H.) :,
 Answer So called Mongolian idiocy occurs now and then with out known cause, in any family. Therefore in the. instance described 1t would seem that the chance of recurrence in that particular fam.