Atabrine
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At that time, malaria was mostly treated with the quinine-like synthetic Atabrine, a medicine designed by German chemists in the early 1930s.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2020
During the fight for the Pacific island of Guadalcanal, Marines rejected Atabrine.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2020
In his memoir, Gibbs says most of the soldiers were outside their tents “heaving up the Atabrine and everything else not securely anchored to their intestines.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2020
Shannon gathered a group of researchers who could determine the correct dosage of the synthetic antimalarial Atabrine for U.S. soldiers serving in the Pacific.
From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2012
Prior to the 1960s a number of drugs, such as Atabrine and chloroquine, had been developed that effectively treated this illness.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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