Show h m aaanienri THE SUNFLOWER AND QUININE Discovery Made That Plant Yields a Splendid Febrifuge An eminent Spanish professor has made the discovery that tho sunflower sunflow-er yields n splendid febrifuge that cnn bo used as n substitute for quinine More than ten years ago Moncorvo reported to tha Thcrnpcititlrnl society of Pnrls with reference to the same subject Accordingly the sunflower should 1 1 not only by Its growing exert great foverdlHpelllng effect but also yield n product which Is used advantageously advan-tageously In all fevers Tho common sunflower Is an American Amer-ican plant Its original homo Is Ftatui by eminent botanists to be lcm and Mexico The Russian peasantry seem to be convinced that tho plant possesses properties against fever and fever patients I pa-tients sleep upon a bed made of sunflower sun-flower leaves and also cover themselves them-selves with them This use has recently re-cently Induced a Russian physician to experiment with a coloring mutter prepared from sunflower leaves and It i is stated that he has had good results with the coloring matter and with alcoholic al-coholic extracts from the flower and leaves With 100 children from one month to 12 years old ho has In the majority of cases effected as speedy a cure as otherwise with aulnlno |