Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-14

put. There are steam pipes running
through the watts which keen tho oil
just at the boiling point, or al almost
200 degrees Fahrenheit. At this nojnt
the dust is dissolved. and the ouinine
atoms separate from It and 60 into the
! oil, being soaked up as water soake u,,
salt After twenty hours all the qulnne
has LETT the dust and become part "
the oil, while the residue sinks to the
! bottom
The oil is now drawn of into other
| vats where II settles II now looks for
all the world Ike clear water II Is
| really Kerosene oil soaked with auinlne
/ The next thing Is TO get the qulnIne out
/ This Is done by introducing sulphurlc
| acid and water. The acid takes up the
/ oil, but rejects the QuInlne and when
/ the oil and acid are drawn OF the bot.
| tom Of the vat has a sediment Of dirty
white sand. This IS crude aunlne Ii
/ Is clarified or refined much as we refine
/ sugar, and at the end comes out In the
frosted silver, faky powder known as
| pure qulnine. II is now packed into
tins Of one hundred ounces and thus
shipped TO New York. Amsterdam, Lon.
! don and the other great drug markets
of the world
QUININE PLANTATIONS IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
DR.. van Llnge tells me that s5 rer
cent OF all the worlds quinine comes
from Java. and that 81 per cent OF this
Is from the neighborhood Of Bandonc.
lie says that q large amount Of that
made here goes 10 the United States
and that the demand from there stead.
fly Increases.
our government might easily set out
/ plantations I'm the island NJ Mindanao.
| That island is almost ms large as lava
| II has some Of the richest soil Of the
tropics, and contains mountainous rp-
glons not unlike Preanger. n the see.
rotary Of agriculture should establish
an experimental clnchano estate IN the
mountains near Zamboanga or Davao.
the matter could be easily tested. and n
might result In exports Of enormous
value,
AZ present something Ike l6 600 000
pounds Of quinine are used IN the world
every year. This Is about 1000 00O ono
grains, or enough to give every man.
woman and child three two-Craln pills.
an amount which Is manifestlv not
tH'utN W fVuNlfId'I 10f malaria ana
the MOSQUITOES. An allowance Of one
dozen pills per person would quadrunle
tho demand requiring a product of &c.
600 600 000 grains or enough to build up
ounlne fortunes In every part OF the
Philippine islands.
THE MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA.
The scientists here are inclined 10 the
belief now current OF home that the
mosquitoes communicate malaria. They
tell me certain kinds of mosquitoes are
full OF malarial parasites. germs so
small that II takes billion Of them 10
give a man bad case Of fever, and a
quarter Of a billion 10 produce n chill.
These parasites breed so rapidly how
ever that a few hours, or at most n
few days. after being bitten by the
mosquitoes the man Is full Of them and
he soon comes down with malaria The
only thing poisonous 10 the PARASITES
so far discovered is qulnine This kills
them, the blood throws of the organ
ism and the man grows we'll again. I
came near dying while in Ecuador not
long ago from tho bites Of such mos
ouitoes, ! had gone M 10 the foot Of
tho Andes through q vast tract of flood
cd country which gw2rmed with ma
larial mosquitoes 7 rode atau, FOR two
days In a canoe through the tops Of
the trees being bitten by these insects
and upon my return 20 GunyaQuil was