ROMANCE OF QUININE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3221, 5 January 1917, Page 2

ROMANCE OF QUININE.

1' " v a ' v £ :; I f- .( .... THE THfc Neartr three handed yean ago the Countess Ciwsbeaa, ' tne young and beautiful wife of the Saamih Vioero.Y of Peru, lay at deatk'a «wr of a fares. And after th* nfcahtft d**,* had done their best —0 vonMf cup* , ping, bleeding, and so forth, ■» was cured by a bitter demotion of the bark of a tree gtvea her by her Mian servant. '« She tfcok aomeof the berktn Spain. Graduallyt-tiie use ei it aa a Swfliw spread tttroughont Eaum. sad Lin* naeus, ' the great Swedish botanist, named the tree from which it came, Cinchoßi,i»iwr*flWHl*i The tlea* but the drug prenared froa the hark is known as quinine,' from tfeaold Psruvian name, f 'quin»>«Nii«*s"> which means "bark ot-iarke.* , *- It is ft* literal truth wit this mao vellous niudk'ine Bhipire. Quinine won us Iftdia, because without'its aid Sn eonquerini; fevers, ijriifchtfoefa could have Still iri»nsAhidi. Here are vast districts iB-%ksirtiof that continent where ev*a_now *a white man dar^wntiiw withoutiyn with drink anny «n the toilsome march to Khartum. Without't the Soudan could not have Ufeci Won to civilisation. ' The reason, of couim is tha* malarial and other fevers, the curaetof most tropical countries, are spread »y mosquitoes, ond quinine kills thai diaeam germs that the insects intridhce into the bloody