The Count of Chinchon Receives Cinchona C U R E I N G Agtes and ieavers S O LD 山写 The Countess of Chinchon and As early as the 17th century,th her husband are credited with Jesuits in South America were bringing the bark back to Spain using the bark of the cinchona tree as a cure for malaria As early as the 17th century,the Jesuits in South America were using the bark of the cinchona tree as a cure for malaria
Quinine and War The Tree that Changed the World Map The Only Drink That Stops a Cold Nows the time Quinine-Whisky to take MERITAL ININE-WHIS QUININE 二 COMPOUND TABLETS Seka rs Quinine Shortag 1944 May Winston Churchill AMONG THE CASUALTIES OF WAR 1874-1965 Quinine,Morphine And Whiskey:Tools of the Civil War Battlefield Doctor "The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives and minds than all doctors in the Empire."--Winston Churchill
Cinchona and Quinine SOLDAT PRENDS CHAQUE JOUR TA OUININE a mal pris sa uinine. The results of taking quinine contrasted with the results of not taking it British soldiers parading to receive their daily quinine dose under supervision of their offi cers,Salonika,1916 奎宁“抗疟战争”的功臣 Photograph of a warehouse in Amsterdam,cases filled with cinchona bark
Quinine:the beginning of the modern Drug Industrial Complex Civil War Medicine Many Civil War commanders required that their soldiers take quinine prophylactically.Quinine became as coveted like gold
Theft of Seeds-Fairest of Peruvian Maids' Justus C.Hasskarl Charles Ledger (1811-1894)German Cinchona ledgeriana (1818-1905) explorer,botanist a better variety for He gave quinine to the world producing quinine in 1864 Charles Ledger succeeded in importing 14 English pounds of Cinchona seeds to England.Following unsuccessful negotiations with the British government in 1865,these seeds were also ultimately sold to the Dutch