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Show THE SUNFLOWER AND QUININE. Discovery Made That Plant Yield a 8plendld Febrifuge. An eminent Spanish professor has mado tho discovery that tho sunflower sunflow-er yields n splendid febrlfugo that can bo used as a substitute for quinine. Moro thnn ten yenrs ago Moncorvo reported to tho Therapeutical society of Paris with reference to tho same subject Accordingly tho sunflower should not only by Its growing exert Croat fevcr-dlspclling effect, hut also yield u product which Is used advantageously advan-tageously in all fevers. Tho common sunflower is an American Amer-ican plant. Its original homo Is Ftatcd by eminent botnnlsts to bo Peru and Mexico. Tho Russian peasantry seem to be convinced that tho plant possesses properties against fever, and fever patients pa-tients sleep upon a bed mado of sunflower sun-flower leaves and also cover themselves them-selves with them. This uso hns recently re-cently induced a Russian physician to experiment with a coloring matter prcpnred from sunflower lenves, and It Is stated Hint ho hns had good results with tho coloring matter and with alcoholic al-coholic extracts from the (lower and leaves. With 100 children from ono month tr 12 years old ho has, In tho majority of cases, effected aB speedy, a euro as otherwise with quinine. |