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it is so convenient and safe," but always finds quinine affecting her unfavourably. In her own words: "I know the feelings of the effect of an overdose of quinine taken. in the ordinary way, internally, because of repeated efforts to take it when I was nursing during the war and during epidemics. The smallest dose made my head buzz, and made distinct kinds of griping pain in my bowels, and I gave over trying to take it. . . . As a contraceptive I tried quinine pessaries with the cap in the hope that your doubt about its absorption would not apply to me, but in twenty-four hours I had exactly the same feeling as I had when I'd taken quinine internally and a distinct quinine head; it worked off in about another twenty-four hours or so, and I was again quite all right again, but the very next time I had the pessary I was exactly the same in just the same length of time, and I've tried it at least a dozen times to test it in the hopes that I might throw it off, but with always the same results."

A quinine suppository can also be made by mixing quinine with gelatine instead or cocoa-butter. These have the advantage that they have not the objectionable effects of the greasy pessary in their contact with