The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-13

ENGLISH MONOPOLY SEEING HOLD OF
THE VERY MEANS OF HEALTH.
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government for the exclusive privilege Of exporting bark
by the British and the general opinion il that win BE-
snied and continued let what change ofgovsrment
our La agent informs us that stocks there do no.
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pass beyond 100 qals- NV.
there are few :m. p.1 s ~ sso s quality sui y
holders have the same they have for the
ssnS sss;ss
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LIST January, up to date Of octoberi7 T
United States 1880
ysIp.uro, tnos,ly forU-s3 licsas-aoss7s
London 26is50
Genoa 1880
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II will be seen by the above paragraph, copied
from the correspondence of the New York Evening
Express, that our commercial rivals, in accordance
with their usual policy, are endeavoring to secure a
rangement with the Bolivian government should be
carried into effect, it would, in case of interrupt
ton of our commercial relations with England, in
terfere very materially with supply Of an arti-
ticle, which has become almost one Of the necessa-
ries of life In many parts of our country. There is
probably greater amount of Peruvian bark, and
its active principle quinine, consumed In our coun-
try than In any other quarter Of the world. The
gross amount shipped for the United States, from
africa, is second only to that sent to London, and
much greater than the quantity consumed in
France; and it must be recoected that large pro-
portion our quinne is received from the French
and English manufacturers, in addition to that which
is manufactured by American chemists. Through
out the immense tract of newly settled coun-
try within our limits, diseases of miasmat-
&c origin, intermittent, remtent, bilious and
gestve fevers, are by far the most prevalent
and fatal, and for them bark and qunipe are the
safest and most valuable remedies at present in use
by physicians. In fact, it ID matter Of doubt il
some portions of our country, in the West and
South, would ever have been settled, had we not
possessed SO remedy for the diseases rendered
90 rife and fatal by the clearing Of land But for it,
the fatality amongst our troops in the swamps of
Florida would have been terribly increased The
demand for the article is swelling annually with our
increasing population, and it probably never will be
Less for an the swampy parts of England, the fens
Of Lincolnshire, and even in the city of London,
there 10 lack of malaral disease TO the pres
ent day, and the campagna around Rome has been
for centuries VIGOROUSLY sickly. The New Orleans
Medical Journal thus notices the estimation in which
the quinine is held in the Southwest, and the diff
Guilty in obtaining an adequate supply even now -
"Qsinine instead of caiosl is considered in the
South, the Sampson of the Materia JMedica, and we
congratulate our brethren and the community on the
change. The doses Of this medicine have been in
creased from two grains to tan, twenty, and up
wards and it, beneficial effects are often truly won
derfal, Secretly and impercepibly il dispels the
morbid train Of symptoms, and y 10 perhaps the
only medicine strictly entitled to the name Of fsbri-
gf. The quantity Of the article used in the South
this season il prodigious. It has been impossbleto
supply the demand. An incident related to US by
gentleman from Mississippi will serve to illustrate
it. In certain neighborhood whore great deal of
sickness prevailed i was ascertaincd just at night
(and, AZ was supposed, in a very private manner,)
that an ounce of quinine could be procured about 30
miles distant. Il was determined to start runner
for il before day on the following morning; this was
done, but when he arrived at his destination, he
found himself far too late; and his only consolation
applicants. The druggists Of Vicksburg told W
they had in their hands hundreds of dollars sent
from the interior to purchase quinine soon it
could be obtained.n Recently its price has risen to
nearly IS ounce, which places il in great meas
ure beyond the reach of the poor.
Il may not be unintercsting TO your readers to
know that the substitute for quinne, from the vege-
table kingdom, which promises best in the present
state of knowledge the active principle of the
bark Of several varieties Of the common willow,
(salix.) This medicine was introduced some years
since under the name of saIicime but as yet It has
not been employed sufficiently for its comparative
value to have been determined with certainty. II
is understood TO be the design of the medical de-
partment of the army to have it tried on large
SCALE at one two Of the most unhealthy military
posts the southwestern frontier with the view Of
determining It's precise value 1t would be very
well to possess such resource in of an emer-
gency; otherwise we, might be reduced to the same
condition with regard TO the Peruvian bark, that
Bonapartc was with regard 10 cane sugar and
sapetre his supplies of the latter from Asia and the
East were cut off by tho British cruisers which
blockaded the ports of France, and he was forced
TO convene the chemists Of the realm, and order
them 70 devise some means of making ii. The
urgency of the case sharpened their ingenuity, and
the extensive nitro beds of the sapefere were the
well nigh inexhaustible; and If salicins shall be
chemists can furnish it to any extent requred for
wherever there is a swamp to produce miasma,
there, very generally, in the temperate zone, will
the willow tree be also found. Indeed, il would
seem that Providence had so ordered il, that the
disease should be accompanied by lis appropriate
remedy. "LOVELL.n
Washington, D. c., May 10th, l845.
OFFICIAL.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
GroRaE w. Dorr, Lieutenant in the Navy, piet
VIM. A. Jones, resigned.
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