Chininum Muriaticum

Hydrocholorate of chinin. Formula , C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 ,HCl+2H 2 O (Hesse).

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities. 1 , Kerner, when perfectly well, took 1.6 gramme, Binz "das Chinin," 1875; 2 , Zuntz took 1.8 gramme in three doses in rapid succession, ibid.

Urea diminished 39 per cent. (a result deduced from examining the urine for three days before and four days after taking the Chinin. mur.), [2] . The collective amount of nitrogenous matter in the urine was diminished 24 per cent.; the sulphuric acid (mostly derived from albumen) was diminished 39 per cent., while the amount of water in the urine was increased, [1] .