American spelling: to treat someone with cinchona bark or quinine.
From cinchona + -ize (American verb suffix), derived from Greek -izein. This is the American English variant of British cinchonise.
While British doctors 'cinchonised' patients in India, American physicians 'cinchonized' their patients in Louisiana and Florida, but they were fighting the same enemy: malaria.
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