Alexandria Gazette

Disease Produced By Sulphate Of Quinine.—In a communication to the Academy of Science in Paris, M. Chevalier states that the workmen concerned in the manufacture of sulphate of quinine are subject to a cutaneous eruption, and also to a peculiar fever. The cutaneous eruption in some instances is very severe: not unfrequently it obliges the workman to remain away from his work a fortnight, a month, or even longer still, and sometimes it makes it necessary for him to seek some other employment. The fever has not been observed in the manufactories of France, but only in that of M. Zurimer at Frankfort, and there chiefly in those occupied in pounding the bark. This fever, also, may be so severe as to oblige the workman to relinquish his employment. As yet no prophylactic measures are known: and the temperate and the intemperate would seem to be affected equally.