Show TUB THE DISCOVERY OF ot of tile ali frerot day and sull methode of lr lie I 1 in a company of prominent physicians I 1 each was mas asked to write the nix six remedies that he would take on boa bowd board rd ship for a around the world it if his life were to depond on the number who should return alive says the new york independent the first entry wae w opium unanimously indorsed at th the I 1 sy second cond chitry antry the vote note was as a tie bet between nen I 1 o 0 mercur and quinine and now that the bleh loride of mercury has oen found to be the tle most efficient of microbe k killers liters pi pio babi that would have second place unanimously and the third would be given to the various ex tracts of the bark of the several va clettes of the cinchona of which the most familiar Is quinine a name je rived from that used by the permian indians who called the trees kina the rhe eld fashioned method of administration was by macerating the I 1 quills I 1 of bark hark in wine and the great tonic in the arly early part of this century was bark and wine ine I 1 and aa as in these later days it has been demonstrated to be dir dirtily etly fatal to the bacillus malaria we can easily understand und batand what a boon it was to the sett settled lei in the ind and faver and ague regions of this country when ni iw at last by the advance of chemical skill the secret seret of extracting its alkaloids was found and of these no less than thirteen are known and used and some of them produce a valuable medicine it a leas 1 cost than quinine itself in 1851 the dutch government ov undertook to raise the tret trees in the island of java Jair tand ind now they have most prosperous plantations but the most exter extensive iRtie and of what may be called intelligently conducted plantations plantation saro ar to b found on the slopes of the Ill mala as ind in british burmah in sauth america the bark Is obtained by first stripping th the 0 trunk then felling telling the tree hut but under engl english botanists in india a way Is found of f partials part parti lall all stripping the trunk and then surrounding it with ith moss causing fresh bark to be produced the botanists hav have e even found a dav a of making the bark fuller of the desirable alkaloids |