The Jasper news., 1907-06-20
IS UNIVERSAL DRUG
VIRTUES or oUlNiNE KNOWN TO
ALL PEOPLES.
Many Stories Told Of lie Introduction
70 the World Of Medicine, But lie
Value 10 Beyond
Dispute.

the civilized world has taken dose
OF quinine at some time or other. It
ls the universal drug. It's value is
appreciated by the masses, who use
It only for colds and fevers. AS q
tonic 1t is unsurpassed. AS an alter.
atiye 1t has no equal in materia med
lea.
A distinguished surgeon has said:
IT ] wanted to ferment a barrel of
cabbage In less time than anyone
else could, / would put in 1t an eighth
OF IAN ounce of quinine. A little
quinine in disordered stomachs acts
,iust about as u would in the cab
bage. 1t hastens the assimilation Of
the food and restores normal condl-
tions.'
The habitual user OF quinine, how.
ever, becomes slave to the drug, and
thus derives little benefit from 1t.
Men. with malaria eat 1t by the
ounce, and still retain the malaria.
The world is full of quinine f1ends.
who pour spoonful into the palm Of
one hand and lick It down without :
grimace. ~
They are known to chew cinchona
bark as IL 1t were gum. Others not
habftuated must take two grains or
ten in a gelatin capsule. Before cap.
sules were invented 1t was taken in
molasscs and the chances are. that
the molasses erected the cure. Too
much quinine Is almost as bad as too
much calomel.
The world Is Indebted to Louis XIV.
for the general introduction of quinine.
In France and Italy physicians who
prescribed its use were prosecuted.
Protestants altogether repudiated 1t.
Robert Talbot, an Englishman, cured
his dauphin with it, and Louis lie
Grand was induced to buy the secret.
He was the only king that ever em.
barked in the drug business.
There are several pretty romances
connected with the discovery OF
"kina,' as the native Indians of Peru
called the cinchona trees, from which
qulnine is derived. The drug has had
a lot of names-quinine. cinchona,
countess powder. Jesuit's bark. Car.
dinal De -Lugos powder, Peruvian
bark. China bark, quina, quiquina, Gin
cfrona bark, ETC., and the pronuncia
tlon of the word "quinine" appears to
be matter of geography-kwi-nine
kwe-neen, kin-nine, keen-neen, or kin
neen-take your choice.
The discovery of cinchona bark Ia
enveloped In mystery. The wife OF
the Spanish viceroy OF Peru was
Countess Chinchon. She was cured OF
an intermittent fever by drinking an
infusion of the bark, introduced 1t In
Madrid, and bestowed her name upon
it-chincona. We have corrupted this
into cinchona. That's one story. An
other is that the Jesuit missionaries
who were accustomed to waste the
bark of every tree they hewed down
discovered the precious febrifuge.
A third is that certain animals
while in fever, happened to know
the bark of the cinchona tree and
were cured. A fourth is that some
person, suffering with fever drank Co
piously of pool of water, in which
some fallen cinchona trees had long
been soaking, charging the water with
the medicinal principle. Their speedy
cure led to an investigation, which
discovered qulnine.
A strange fact in this connection IL
that auinine is not used as medicine
in the practice of the native physicians
Of Peru, Ecuador Of Colombia. The
Indians did not even know, of its ex
stence until enlightened by the Span
sards about $50 years ago.
There Is grain of couceit in ali