(Atabrine) is cheaper, but has worse side effects. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20] Reference
Quinacrine (mepacrine) (familiar brand name; Atabrine). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 31] Reference
Note 62: Atabrine was suspected to be a source of psychoses. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
(Atabrine) is cheaper and often works well, but causes worse side effects. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
At times it was difficult to differentiate it from malaria with jaundice following Atabrine therapy. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Brothers]
Grant asked Doc Penzoss, a high-school graduate who dispensed aspirin and Atabrine, to look at the wound. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
Carrying the cup in his left hand, the soldier would proceed to the Atabrine table, careful to keep three feet between himself and the next man. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
Despite vigorous efforts to assure servicemen that Atabrine was harmless, medical and intelligence officers were unable to calm servicemen's fears. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
Both widespread resistance to the administration of Atabrine and the resulting epidemic of malaria demonstrated a strong shared desire to evade military service. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
Medical and intelligence officers likewise blamed Tokyo Rose for this misinformation, but even assigning the blame to an enemy agent did not check the spread rumors about Atabrine. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
Farrell attributed to Tokyo Rose the high incidence of self-inflicted casualties as well as the "shameful" necessity of imposing an Atabrine discipline among the marines on Guadalcanal. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
Underlying this rumor was widespread resistance to the administration of Atabrine; the result was a malaria epidemic motivated in part by soldiers 'desire to escape service on Pacific island bases. 9. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
His successor finally distributed 45 million Atabrine tablets that had been lying in warehouses for more than a year while the government collected storage fees, which were eventually charged to the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
Another enlisted man would place the Atabrine pill in the open palm of the soldier's right hand, and without closing his hand, the soldier was required to face the supervising officer who would watch him put the pill in his mouth, finish the cup of water, and place the cup face down on the table. 66. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
African American servicemen were even more likely than their white counterparts to believe that Atabrine endangered their reproductive health; institutional racism had cemented their distrust of the Army orders. 63 Both black and white soldiers thought that their personal well-being was of little concern to the American military. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
35As the difficulties of administering Atabrine demonstrated, many American soldiers in the Pacific shared a lack of faith in officers, training, and national ideology. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
Atabrine was more effective than quinine, and was the army’s first line of defense against malaria. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
The Atabrine would temper the effects of malaria, we’d been briefed before our first stop in Puerto Rico, while having no effect upon the disease itself. From Wordnik.com. [Closing Time] Reference
From then on I was always on Yossarian’s side in his frictions with Appleby, even at the time of what we both came to call the Splendid Atabrine Insurrection, although I would conscientiously take the antimalarial tablets as we flew through the equatorial climates when we traveled overseas, and he would not. From Wordnik.com. [Closing Time] Reference
Atabrine) for tapeworm. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 31] Reference
Note 9: On Army medical officers 'assessment of Atabrine resistance, see Medical Department, United States Army, Neuropsychiatry in World War II, vol. 2, Overseas Theaters (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1973), 531 – 2; S. Alan Challman, "Report of Medical Department Activities in Southwest Pacific Area" (13 September 45), File: 730 (Neuropsychiatry) Interviews, Miscellaneous Interviews in the Pacific, Box 1349, Office of the Surgeon General World War II Administrative Records, Entry 31 (ZI), RG 112, National Archives, College Park, Md. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
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