Show countess introduced quinine into info spain quinine Is obtained from the powdered bark of the cinchona tree early to in the seventeenth century the countess of ciechon and her husband went to live at lima in peru the count having been appointed viceroy in one of the provinces grew a tree the bark of which was said to cure f fever ever the governor of the province hearing some years later that the countess had bad contracted the dread disease sent her a parcel of the bark it cured her and later inter on returning to spain she took with her quantities of the drug in spite of prejudice ito lt use became popular the trees from which it was obtained were gradually being used up and the drug became expensive in 1860 sir clement markham organized an expedition to peru to collect t plants of too the cinchona with the I 1 aea idea of introducing their culture into india where it was thought they would grow well and where the use of the drug would be beneficial la in view of the climatic conditions being bocon BO conducive to fever although the tha plants died on the way to india the seeds survived and now now there are flourishing plantations in nurma burma and ceylon while more recently the tree has been cultivated with success in jamaica and south africa condou tit bit bits |