The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-13
QUININE AND ITS ROMANCE
The Jesuit Attempt to Corner the
Market by MehHs IF Il PapAl BH1i,

AAe jesuit AttempC TO corner the
Market BY MeAHs IF d Fapal t3Mli.
Of the Peruvian bark enls a Aftieth
comes from Peril; OUR chief s3ilrce beihg
Madras, Geylon holding seeohd place; the
tMs, thgsthet sthdihg lis Hitfe thaii all
years ago our quinine bark all came from
the slopes of the Andes, most of it, as a
little does now, packed in hides carried by
hand and on mules and on boats and RATS
for thousands of miles down the Amazon.
KNOWN for ages to the natives only in one
locality, and so distrusted by them that
it was never carried in the wallets of
only, country, where Peruvian bark is not
When the CViihtess db{hrhoh, Vile a Of ffo tEs'
Vitetoy Of PERU, lay ill at Lima of d Ger
tain fever: The eorregidbf Of Lo3a. hear
ing Hf hef ihnssss and kh9wihy fhe te=
pqTteed tittnts Bf the quina bark, sent her
ministered by her physician, brought
about rapid and complete cure.
The variety of bark, however, was one
that abounds in cinchonidine, and it was
probably this alkaloid, and not quinine,
that cured the countess. Two years aft
erward the woman returned to Spain,
bringing with her d SUPPLY Of the precious
AuAAtS AOA liz uSC VI Tue SICK Oh 0er nu6-
ban bands estates, ana lie Population gradu-
some parcels q the poWdefed Blk se to
kehe t. he distributed by Cardinal De
Lugoo, whence it became known as car
dlnals powder and Jesuit's bark, with
the ridiculous result that no Protestants
One Of the oft-qaoted ~ absu r of
this early, trade was that to insure a mo-
persuaded the Pope to draw line nergss
seuth, America beyond whiph no Tree
Rhoaid pc receghised hs yielding auinine;
+ might BIZ all dn1histakabie cineh6na, all
S {S saHe put !; S Elm on it it, eo| net oE
grow besona thE PSbe's lin iine ;ua and any, ~
one, who refused to accept the evidence
OF ms senses was promptly treated as a
hereto.
The Jesuits were jubilant, and sold the
bark at high prices in Catholic countries
X tSe aaas It a b a2 intaks feedx 9na
down the prejudice against it. By the
number of cures he effected by its means;
prominent ensdSh It to " be kn lie eeiab by
CHARLES II. in 1857; and next year, as
physical n-in-ordinary, he cured the King
OF Il terllan 1eVer. Passing over to France
the same year, he cured the Dauphin and
few other personages in high places, and
sold the secret Of its preparation, to Louis
XIV. for 1000 louis dor, pension and
title.
The preparation does not seem to have
extended very far. for 1t was not until
1915 that the bark was systematically
ahalSzea, and after that five years elapsed
before. the .alkaloid GiiiiiIise was fotiid iii
It: Notwithstanding falbor's success
the doctors fought bitterly over the new
drug, those of Paris more truculently than
all, the older men refusing to admit that
it possessed any good qualities whatever,
and one of them going 50 far as to assert
called, was responsible for ninety sudden
deaths in Madrid alone. But it made its
ham and Morton, tlougl tie prejudice
against it had not quite died out in the
early part Of the present century, when
in the Walcheren expedition many poor
fellows life was saved by the timely ar
rival of a Yankee trader with some chests
of bark, after the supply had entirely
failed in the camp.