The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
QUININE FIENDS ARE MANY.
Introduction of Drug Medici N
IN


Due To Louis XIV.
It is to be assumed that every one
in the civilized world has zen dose
OF quinine at some time or other Ii
Is the universal drug. Its value is I'M
appreciated by the masses who use il
only for colds and fevers As tonic ii
is unsurpassed. As an Alternative il has
no equal in materia medica.
\ distinguished surgeon has said IF
| wanted TO ferment a barrel of cab
bage in less time than anyone else
could would put in it an eighth of an
ounce of quinine. A little quiniae in
disordered stomachs acts just about as
il would in the cabbage. 1t hastens
the assimilation OF the food and re
stores normal conditions"
The habitual user of quinine. | ow-
ever, becomes a slave to the drug ana
thus derives little benefit from it. Men
with malaria eat it by the ounce and
still retain the malaria The world is
full of quinine fiends,w who pour spoon
full into the palm of one hand and
| A4Nh II uONI HltllOQl IL
They are known to chew cincLona
bark as IL it were gum. Others not
habituatei must take two grains or
ten in a gelatine capsule. Before cap
sules We're invented it was taken in
moiasses 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 quinme
In France and Italy physicians who
prescribed its use were prosecuted.
Professionals altogether repudiated it,
Robert Talbot, an Englishman. cured
| the dauphin with il, and Louis lie
Gri I'd was induced to buy the secret
He was the only king that ever en-
barked in the drug business.
There are several pretty rofaances
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, Cardinal De
Lugo's powder. Peruvian bark, China
bark, quina, quiquina. cinchona bark.
etc. and the pronunciation of the word
''quinine" appears 10 be matter of
geography-kwi-nine kwe-neeI. kim
nine, keen-ncen or kin-neen-take your
| choice
The discovery OF cinchona bark is en-
veloped in mystery. The wife of the
Chinchon. She was cured Of an inter-
mlttent fever by drinking an infusion
of the bark. introduced it in Madrid
and bestowed her name upon it-chin-
chon. We have corrupted this into
cinchona. That's one story. Another
is that the Jesuit missionaries. who
were accustomed TO taste the bark of
every tree they hewed down, discov-
cred the precious febrifuge.
A third is that certain animals while
in a fever happened to know the bark
of the cinchona tree and We're cured.
| A fourth is that some persons suffering
with fever drank copously of Il pool of
water in which some fallen cinchona
trees had long been soaking, charging
the water wirn the medicinal principle.
Their speedy cure led to an inyestiga-
ton which discovered quinine
\ strange fact in this connection is
that quinine is not used as medicine in
the practice of the native physicians of
| Do-,, Eoua1or CnIomhia Tho In
dams did not even know of its exist
ence until emil yhtened by the Spania,ds
about 80 years ago.