I was searching for information about coal as a resource during the Civil War last night. I started out looking at coal mining in Kentucky during that time, and well, everybody knows how one thing leads to another. 
OTOH, sometimes serendipity leads to wonderful things, which is why most of us surf occasionally, or at least wander from site to site.
I came across a site which has scanned and OCR’d (and either they have a wonderful OCR program, or someone proofed pretty carefully) several memoirs of the Civil War (or at least, in one case they purport to be). That one caught my attention so much that I thought I’d read a bit of it. The Southern Husband Outwitted by His Union Wife
I wound up reading most of it - not because the writing was so good (although it conformed to the style of the times in many ways), nor because it had any relationship to what I’d been searching on, but because I couldn’t imagine what she’d say next. And that brings me to my question:
Can quinine - in any dosage in water - be poisonous, or cause frothing at the mouth, or impair one’s mental stability? I’m assuming that large doses wouldn’t be good for a person, but poisoning struck me as doubtful. Of course, that wasn’t the only thing.
I started out not even thinking about suspension of disbelief, but long before I finished it, I was having problems. Clearly, by that time I wasn’t reading anywhere close to all of it, just skimming. Mind you, I don’t doubt that some women back then were abused, just as some are now, but this just seemed … not completely credible.