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The Medicine Chest

Quinine Bisulphate

Item

Title

Quinine Bisulphate

Is Part Of

Special Collections
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research

Description

"Anti-malarial, tonic. In malarial fevers, one or two should be taken every two hours. In ague, one to four should be taken, followed by a glass of water, and repeated in three hours if necessary" (BWC 1925:137).

Access Rights

Currently locked away in Strongroom 3 in the UCT Jagger Library. Prior appointment to the library staff needed in order to view the object. Object should be handled with gloves, and a form signed in order to take any photos of it.

Creator

Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Date Created

1890

endDate

1940

Source

UCT Special Collections - BC666
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.1925. ‘Tabloid’: brief medical guide for explorers, missionaries, travellers, colonists, planters and others. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Type

Object

Contributor

Nina Liebenberg

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