Cheaper Qninine

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 8

Cheaper Qninine

A JRE^IATCKATOUTS discovery, by which the price of quinine may be reduced to something liko six cents per ounce, has been made by Cresswell Hewetfc. The synthetical manufacture of quinine was first suggested to Mr Bewett in 1869 by the late Dr. Matthe=on, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, while giving his assistance in a course of experiments in connection with apomorphia. Subsequently, Professor Parkes, of Netley, aided with his advice, and to these gentloman, rather than to himeelf, Cresswell Hewett modestly explains that the process is due. The importance of this discovery ia rendered greater by the fact that while hitherto we have been depending tor our quinine on tho cultivation of the cinchona tree, from whose bark only about two per cent, of good quinine can be extracted, ninety-eight per cent, being valueless, the drug can now be manufactured! without limit by a very simple process from an article which can always be got in abundance in any part of the world.

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