Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23
ooisIsE AND IT'S ROMANO
The Jesuit Attempt to corner the Nd
by Means of a Papal Bull.

Wy bateh7 vs. " spas SHNt
Leisure Hour.
OF the Peruvian bark only a cd
comes from Peru, our chief sourceb
Madras, Ceylon holding second
the two together sending US mora
all the rest OF the world put tog.a
Forty years ago our quinine bah
came from the slopes of the At
most of it, as a little does now, Nd
in hides, carried by hand and on d
and on boats and RATS for thousanl
miles down tho Amazon. KNOW
ages to the natives only in one local
and so distrusted by them that it
never carried in the wallets Of
Iitinerant doctors--so that il is
with some show of truth that PEI |
| the only country where Peruvian
is not used it first came into No
in 1888, when the Countess Chintl
wife of the Yiceroy of Peru, 10y
Lima of tertian fever. The
regidor of Loxa, hearing of her III I
and knowing the reputed virtues d
quina bark, sent her q parcel Of q
its varieties, which, administered
her physician, brought about a |
and complete cure.
The variety of bark. however,
one that abounds in cinchonidine,
it was probably this alkaloid. am
quinine, that cured the Countess.
years afterward the woman return
Spain, bringing with her a SUPP
the precious quina for the use d
sick on her husbands estates, al
reputation gradually spread undt
name of countess powder. In lo'
Jesuits sent some parcels OF the
dered bark TO Rome 10 be distri
by Cardinal De Lugo, whence
came known as cardinals p
and Jesuit's bark, with the ridit
result that no Protestants wouit
, anything to do with it
One Of the oft-quoted absurdil
, this early trade was that to il
i monopoly always a monopol
Jesuits persuaded the Pope to
/ line across South America
) which no tree should be recogni
) yielding quinine. 1t might be
4 mistakable cinehona, all the san
cipchona it could not possil
(; as it had had the audacity Il
beyond the Pope's line, and anyoi
! refused to accept the evidence
: senses was promptly treated as a b
a The Jesuits were iubilant, an,
the bark at high prices in Ct
g countries, Wanting it as an ini
/ remedy, under the name of
i. patrum. 1t was John Tabor, al
q fish apothecary. who broke dow
/. prejudice against it. BY the n
j. Of cures he effected by its means
out revealing its name, he |
y prominent enough to be knight
d Charles ii in 1857, and next y
physician in-ordinary, he cure
h King of q tertian fever. PassiI
y to France the same year, he cul
s Dauphin and a few other person.
r high places, and sold the secret
g preparation to Louis XIV for
e louis dor. a pension and title.
The preparation does not seem
It extended very far, for it was &c
o 1915 that the bark was systemg
h analysed, and after that five
10 elapsed before the alkaloid qulni
4 found in it. Notwithstanding I
Is success, the doctors fought |
over the new drug. those of Pari
n truculently than all, the older
d fusing TO admit that it possess
j. good qualities whatever. and
n them going so far as to asset
r, quinquina, as it had come TO be
le was responsible for 80 sudden de
S, Madrid alone. But it made il
or all the same, helped along by
is ham and Morton, though the pr
IS against it had not quite died
lie the early part of the present C.
is when in the Walcheren exp
fe many poor fellows life was sa
10 the timely arrival Of a Yankee
with some chests of bark, If
lie supply had entirely failed in the