Milford News | 1943-12-23 | Page 7 | Quinine Old Drug

Quinine Old Drug Indians of Peru used quinine cen-, cen-, turies ago. They chewed bark of the cinchona tree, or the "quina-quina" I as they called it, to ward off at- tacks of fever. It came to the at-i at-i tention of Europeans in the 17th cen-j cen-j tury when the wife of the count of j Chinchon, Spanish viceroy of Peru, was cured of malaria by the powdered pow-dered bark of the tree. The Swedish botanist, Linnaeus, named the "miracle" "mir-acle" tree, "chinchona," in honor of I the count's wife, but the "h" was , lost through a typographical error and the name "cinchona" resulted.