The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-19

10 see its merits. and carried the wonder
iul bark 10 Rome. distributing IL where
needed; thus il gained the name OF Je-
suits bark. ana, coming from a non-pro-
Iesslonal source. was cOidly received by
the generality OF regular" physicians,
tnougn here and there an emperic used IL
with great benefit 10 his prejudice in Prot
eStant minds that many OF them refused
70 avail themselves Of IL. But Sir Robe
srt Tabor gained fame and fortune in
France by using Il for intermitgents. and
IN 1913 Louis XIV purchased the secret
OF MIN ana made IL a free gift 10 his peO-
PIE soon after Morton and Sydenham-
the most eminent physicians OF the day
in England-used Il with success. When
II became an important item of Peruvian
export the country tried TO conceal the
lsct mat the tree was also growing in
New Grenada. The old-fashioned method
OF administration was by macerating the
quilts OF bark in wine, and the great
tonic in the early part of this century
was bark and wine," and, as in these
later days il has been demonstrated TO be
directly fatal 10 the bacillus malariae. we
can easily understand what boon il was
20 the settlers in the undrained and
fever-and-ague" regions of this country
when new. At last by the advance OF
chefnical skill, the secret of extracting
It's alkaloios was found. and Of these no
less than thirteen are known and used
ana some or them produce a valuable
meelclne, at a less cost than quinine it
self.
50 great was the demand for it. end so
WasteIul the method of gathering it. that
II was easy TO see that the original sources
or supply We're made to transplant the
trees TO regions where similar climatic
ana typographical conditions gave prom
Use OF success. Some of those early at
tempts failed; but in 1854 the Dutch gov
eminent undertook TO raise the trees in
the island of Java, and now they have
most prosperous plantations; hut the most
extensive and successful of what may be
called intelligenuy conducted plantations
are TO be found on the slopes OF the
Himalayas and in British Burma. In
South America the bark is obtained by
first stripping the trunk, then telling the
tree; but under English botanists in In
ula way Is tOund or partially stripping
the trunk and then surrounding il with
moss, causing fresh bark to be produced.
The botanists have even found a way
of making the bark fuller of the desra-
bel alkaloids. We rejoice that such a pre-
cious boon to malaria-affiictcd mankind
has been brought under the sway of in
telligent men; but we do not forget that
1t came from South America. 1t was
the want of Quinine that has sent mourn
letters giving the story of malarial swamp
and feVer-Stricken soldiers in Madagas-
car is most greWSOme reading, and ii is
said that the Spanish general in Cuba
nine, rather than more shot and shell.
In one sense Germany may be said to be
the MODERN medicine purveyor of the
world 1t was her chemists and
demonstrated the value of the
minerals mercury, arsenic, anthony and
sulphur and now they have planned a
systematic attack on the vegetable king
dom. The Berlin pharmaceutical soci-
ETY. has established central office for
extending the worlds knowledge of pol
sonous and healing plants, and they ex-
pect to receive reports from all parts Of
archaeological discoveries in plants, of
a healing or poisonous nature"