The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-06-15
IS UNIVERSAL DRUG
VIRTUES or ouINlNG KNOWN TO
AL esoPLEe;
Many Stories Told Of lts introduction
to the World Of Medicine, But lie
Value 10 Beyond
Dispute.

1t Is to be assumed that everyone in
the civilized world has taken dose
Of Quinine at some time or other. It
10 the universal drug. Its value IL
appreciated by the masses, who use
It only for colds and fevers. As q
tonic II 10 unsurpassed. As an alter.
alive It has no equal In materia med.
lea.
A distinguished surgeon has said:
III I wanted to ferment barrel Of
cabbage in less time than anyone
else could. I would put in It an eighth
OF an ounce of Quinine. A little
Quinine in disordered stomachs acts
Just about a. 1t would In the cab
bage. It ,hastsns the assimilation Of
the food and restores normal condi.
TONS"
The habitual user Of Quinine. how.
ever, becomes . slave to the drug, and
thus derives little benent from It.
Men with malaria eat It by the
ounce. and still retain the malaria.
The world is full Of Quinine fiends.
who pour a spoonful into the palm Of
one hand and lick 1t down without q
grimace.
They are known to chew cinchona
bark as II It were gum. Others not
habituated must take two grains or
ten in gelatin capsule. Before cap
sules were invented 1t was taken In
molasses and the chances are that
the molasses effected 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 It.
Robert Talbot. an Englishman. cured
his dauphin with 1t, and Louis lie
Grand was induced to buy the secret.
He was the only king that ever EN-.
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
Quinine Is derived. The drug has had
lot Of names-Quinine. cinchona.
countess powder. Jesuit's bark. Car.
dinal De Lugo's powder. Peruvian
bark. China bark. Quina. QuiQuina. Gin.
chona bark, ,etc., and the pronuncia.
ton Of the word "Quinine" appears to
be matter Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
kwe-neen, kin.nine. keenneen, or kin.
neen-take your choice.
Tho Al.noya,,r ol-cho.n Ao.1~ L.
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 We're accustomed to waste the
bark Of every tree they hewed down,
discovered the precious febrifuge.
A third is that certain animals,
while in a-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 a 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 quinine,
A strange fact in this connection Ia
that quinine 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.
istence until enlightened by the Span.
isards about $50 years ago