Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-14
QUININE.
BY r AGE.
IN TWO PARTs.-PART I.
Copyright, 1SS6.l


rumored discovery that it falls 10 my lot as the
only one of the three chief participants in the
following at present able to make full state
ment of the case of his own knowledge, TO clear
the name and pay ut tribute 10 the genius ol
John Wilcox.
In November Of the year 1885 forwarded
all my belongings from New York to my future
home, my birthplace, San Francisco. My
chosen friend, Wilcox, fitted up for me an o,iice
and a suite of rooms in the Western Addition
consisting of library, bedroom and a sort OF
laboratory, which was at liberty TO use for a
disseeting room or any other OF my surgical
studies.
In the first week of December started from
New York, and, being stopped at Los Angeles
by a railroad ''waSpout" which prevented
travel and Geographic communication. / took "A
coast steamer and reached San Francisco, un-
heralded, week before my travelling com pam
Ions, on Monday.
Entering my rooms In the afternoon / man
aged to- surprise Wilcox his return from
business and brought him home to dinner. AZ
ter this We had iOunged FOR hours before that
rarest of California sights a wood fire. Old
deeds, old thoughts; old friends, all that a de-
cade sweeps out Of "A mans mind until some
sudden meeting with one OF the sharers of the
heroic days of school and college had occupied
US over beer and pipes till the clock stood at L
and wilcox rose To 20.
But the man never lived who could part at
such a time with a chum on his first motion,
ana forced him back with a touching appeal
To- habits Surely, Wilcox. the prince OF good
fellows, IN his day at Berkeley would never
leave with his bottle half npfe 1syith no word
of the present or future:
We'll, old fellow, Iii break my hours for you
this once while you brew me glass OF punch.
famous of yOre, and tell me more OF YOUR life
IN Germany than your letters did,-spare those
bushes; l, too was reLnisS-and lust what you
are going To do now that FRISCO seps Won
again. 80 while 1 set the kettle singing on
the hob told all my pTosaic history of the ten
years spent in Bonn and the Paris hospitals;
how my private means were enough To support
me until established i'll practice a surgeon;
purpoSed lighting my way in this worst OF
places Tor u young American, a provincial city,
until won the reward OF years of hard study
As 1 went ON over the delicious compound
Wilcox, lying lazily on his settee and pinching
the rug with dreamy fingers, chuckled griInly
Il always thought you would adopt this line of
Intending mems bodies; you were such IL great
cook with your original recipes. How good
they all We're l will give Que OF the old sup
pers Friday to all OF you old ie lows that Will
make Us ten years younger. -..@.....,
Then shall follow suit and cook sou all the
old danties myself, and if the boys are doing
as well at their law partnership as. You say :,
we'll make them stand diRnSr Gt Grfmautus
as OF yore. Dropped III ON the a,d Inaa, just as
snuhy as overland he actually renien bered me-
But Low It's all ready; draw Dwell beloved
rest from thy toll, and let not thy desire lack
an equal share. Now tell me how the science
OF chemistry goes On with you.''
.rs wen, Ie replied You know Price and
been on intimate terms with Price, and always
rather disliked him. I'VE have a laboratory
together on Drumm street, where we manufac-
ture for public use all kinds of artificial essen
tial oils, and several other chemicals of SINH
lar nature. besides a very lair lot OF anitlne
dyes. 1t pays pretty well, much being done by
improved processes OF our own, and, have
four or five hands. leaves us plenty of time
Tor experiments in advanced chemistry.
whole place. No great affair, ibaf it yields us
a good income, about as certain as most bust
ness - y =
Lighting my pipe, I met WiIcox's eve. 1t
Was cleaning brightly, and his ~ ,iote frame. al
he still nervously fumbIed the rug, see lifedg
Quivering with suppressed excitement. Know
Ing that this in him BODIED the cSInfIld nicatien.
of some secret, asked, Nv hat irftre:'-a - %
He looked undecided for a moment; then his
lace lighting up eagerly, he answered, II see
You know my old gossipping nature still. Well,
10 other men would say this is all my story
but with you things are different and il L tell
You part OF my secret, Haight, Old boy, know
YOU will keep il in the same miserly way you
always did your own. But To begin. While
Price and are together in the business part of
our concern and in some of the experimental
work, in most of il il is each for himself.
Now do you know anything OF the attempt
To discover an artificial substitute for Quinne9"
i gave start / had met during my studies
many scientific men both In Europe and
America, devoted To this chimericai pursuit
and one In particular at Bonn, from whom [
had heard much the subject: so that |
begged Wilcox 10 explain the matter, merely
ought untold.
more, II need hardly tell one OF your profess
sion the Importance OF such "A discovery. You
know how the invention of aniilne threw halt
the population OF Denmark out of the madden
raising business, and diverted to the pockets of
The lucky inventors all the profits formerly
made from the madden dyes, until the secret
became generally known, when, OF course COM
petition Iessened and divided them. Now the
man who discovers artificial quinihe can, if lie
will, make for himself all the money now
earned by the shippers of Peruvian. bark, Llss.
shippers, Jobbers, manufacturers }fho RrepfaEs
II, ana the Wholesale druggists l.s Seli-- nii.
lions in a single year. AND at1easi this: Tor ips
can SO undersell the present prices As 30 seeIrt&
n market ali the world over. 't 81 ~
Vow i have discovered this process No
WONDER you start, Tor il is your thick-headed
wilcox who has done IL. And HIS not "a mere
Invention, either, but genuine discovery as
we'll. which will lit my name to the MAGE
l,alion's and Scheeles and Eavoisiers now
oceupy,-one that will write anew the whole
science OF chemistry"
BY this time L was wild with excitement
as lIcoA himself Go on cried, go ON!
Why will you drag so?"
All In good time, old man; let me explain
or you won l see the vastness of the discovery.
We'll, suppose you analyze quinine, what will
you nnd? 80 many parts each of carbon. oxy-
gym hydrogen and nitrogen. Eut if YOU were
To combine these clements indicated by the
formula would You have quinine? Not a bit of
IT, There i still something lest that defies all
analysis by methods now in use 1t Is the very
soul OF the drug, and YOU can no rtlt,re buiId
4ulnlne from Its known clements Than You car,
crea.e "a frankenstein man fretsl' Jlfe refuse-uf
your dissectIng room. l declare, old fellow its
absolutely iUGIcrous TO think !fow we scientists
have been wandering about fsoIf1e risin so
many years, and yet been bland - bats To its
true meaning. +.-rr-
Therefore, ali experimenters, abandoning
THIS attempt, nave given their time solely to
finding some substance. either vegetable or
chemical, that will produce the same effect at a
less cost But L have found out way to
analyze this essence of the drug which if Won
please We can cali quinOldia-Ho, that means
only "A qulnIue senblance. keeping TO the idea
OF body AND soul We Will call II pSychoauinia
The soul of the drug. have resolved il into its
elements, and have learned To- recombine them
from other and different substances
Vow observe what glorious field this opens,
by the same methods, / nave been able 10 re-
soiVe all organic matter, and this discovery will
IeSoIutlOnlZe the whole OF Organic chemistry
In time, think shall be able 70 do the same
Oh inorganic substances. But even as il is W hen
TINS Is known shall be the father of the New
Chemistry. -
For the last year, / have been occupied in
coIectine ana arranging my results, Classifying
the hundreds Oh new elements and euInbina-
lions, and rewriting the whole sub och in tn.
light oi the greatest discovery modern times
Drugs the most costly will be made cne.,D as
bread; polsons will be rendered harmless new
remedies found Tor lncurarfe diseases the
whole conditions OF life changed, and l. your
thick-headed old Wilcox, Will he hailed as tine
greatest beneiactor OF mankind"
was literally struck dumb with arnazement
The vast, magnificent prospect this discovery
opened, paralyZed my imaslnations. Like one
IN q trance or dream, grasped desperately Tor
SOME tangible object, and muttered Indis tinctly
tan you show Ine something OF all this.''
I'm, yes I've kept TO my FIRST love. thorgh
that Is now one OF the least OF my results Sill
owe ali 10 IL. and through IL viii make IN v
discovery first known. Just taste this" and he
white powder ''oulphate OF quinine. and as
une as ever saw" .-les. i need not ask won
10 anaiyZe II. GU can trust Inc when / saw it
answers perfectly every test of the natural
article, chemically pure. And the cost of il
won't exceed a cent an ounce to the manufac-
urpr