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To: FrdmLvr

My Grandmother was diagnosed with malaria as a child, in the Tidewater. She was given quinine for it.

She was born in 1890 and lived to be 94, and continued to use quinine into old age, whenever she had symptoms that made her think she had contracted malaria again.

I think she was still able to buy quinine at the pharmacy into the 1970s at least...


26 posted on 01/25/2022 8:30:59 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
My Grandmother was diagnosed with malaria as a child, in the Tidewater.

Where is "the Tidewater?"

Sounds like someplace on the Puget Sound.

Regards,

70 posted on 01/25/2022 11:33:37 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Jamestown1630
My Grandmother was diagnosed with malaria as a child, in the Tidewater. She was given quinine for it. She was born in 1890 and lived to be 94, and continued to use quinine into old age, whenever she had symptoms that made her think she had contracted malaria again. I think she was still able to buy quinine at the pharmacy into the 1970s at least...

I have some old quinine tablets from the 1980's. They were prescribed off label for leg cramps. If you get a leg cramp that won't stop, quinine really knocks it out.

86 posted on 01/26/2022 5:53:30 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I remember radio ads for an OTC med called Bromo-Quinine.


93 posted on 01/26/2022 3:14:21 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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