Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-30

world which have been furnishing
practically It's supply Of quinine. il
.-z form Of cht-cao1a ba-E. for tha
last So or g. years Great Britain Is
z-etully hls5az6ing the supply Of abs
precious specific for II use Of her
armies and those Of her allies, while
Tie Dutch nus, BE depended upon 70
supply those Of the Central Powers.
A-m5=z il he field need 3 vastly larger
supply O. qut-i-e tza- would the same
number Of men II ordinary occupation
hence 3 quiaine famine for the rest
. ct the world. II the var continues. not
only viii the price continue 10 rise bur
. the Serious question viii be-w5zrs
. are we 10 get II at all
Tine vas when certain countries Of
. South America. where the chinchoua
rress originated, supplied the world.
and The story Of quinire and how It
vas introduced into Europe isc enter
-alni1gly told by Edward Al5es in the
. car-e1t number Of the Bulletin Of the
Pan American Union. Washington. D.
+ c. somewhat as follows
+ Once upon q tine-2-S years ago. 10
. be more ezact-in her viceroyI castle
. il Limo, Peru. a lady lay i'll Of q fever.
. She was the Countess Ana. wife Of the
. fourth Count Of Chinchon Who at the
time was viasroy Of Peru. News Of the
I l4dy's illness having reached one Don
Juan Lopez de Cannizares, the Span
( ish Corregidor Of Loxa, who dwelt
-ome $50 miles south Of Quito, in
what is nov the Republic Of Ecuador,
ne dispatched a parcel Of a certain
kind Of powdered bark to her physic-
i'm, Juan de Vega, with the assurance
Fthat it was q sovereign remedy and
+ Eever-failing specific in cases Of inter
mirten fever. He knew this to be true
from both experience and observation.
for about years prior to this event he
Lad suffered fro ma severe attack Of
fever and had been cured by an old
Indian OF Malacotas, who had thus re
veaIed the remarkable properties Of
this bark. Since then he had observed
its eefcts in many other cases-so he
knew whereof he spoke. The remedy
vas tried, and the countess was cured.
The name given by the abortgines to
the tree on which grew hits wonderful
bark was ''quina-Quina,"
In 1910 the Count Of Chinchon re-
turned to Spain with his wife. She
took with her a quantity OF the healing
bark, and thus was the first person to
introduce it into Europe. Subsequently
some Of the Jesuit missionaries in
Brazil sent parcels of the powdered
bark to Rome, whence it was distribut
ed by the Cardinal de Lugo to other
members of the fraternity throughout
Europe. It was therefore often called
"Jesuits' bark and sometimes Card
iral's bark Something over a hun
dred years after the Countess of Chin
cLon had introduced it into Spain, Lin
naeus, the great Swedish botanist, in
making his remarkable classification
o. all known trees and plants. to COM
nemorate the service rendered to
mankind by that lady, named the genus
which yields the bark Chinchona,
ard subsequently still further immor-
talized the name by giving it to the
great family of trees and plants now
known as the Chinchonaceas, which
includes not only Chinchonae but also
the Ippecacuanas and the cofees."
/ In their native habitat, in Peru, Ec-
uador Bolivia, and Columbia. the
trees flourish in a cool and equable
temperature, on the slopes and in the
valleys and ravines of the mountains,
surrounded by the most majestic seen
. cry. never descending below an eleya-
ton Of $500 and ascending as high as