Thursday, October 28, 2010

Word of the Week 9

1. Quinine

2. Yahoo! News

3. “Two Civil War-era dolls thought to have been used to smuggle medicine past Union blockades were X-rayed Wednesday, disclosing hollowed papier-mâché heads that once could have contained quinine or morphine for wounded or malaria-stricken Confederate troops.”

4. A drug principally used to treat malaria and fevers including typhoid. (Noun)

5. The doctor prescribed her quinine to treat her fever.

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