If your one of those people who thinks when reading this title, what the hell is this, then this is the right article for you, it is full of detail and can get you high on knowledge.
Quinine is an alkaloid usually found (depending on where you live) in the bark of the cinchona tree and is usually used to treat illnesses including Malaria in the 1600's, which was quite a long time ago, and could be passed as a herbal remedy. It can also be used as a chemotherapeutic agent which battled against disease until the 1920's, and to eliminate fevers. Quinine was the first successful use of chemicals to treat very infectious diseases.
So how was it discovered?
Quinine is often refered to as the "sacred bark" for many reasons, it was seen as something overpowering. In many legends, they suggest that this may have been used in order to cure diseases during the time of the native population. It was discovered in many stories including a man getting lost with a fever in a forest and drank from a pool that he thought was infected, but it only had extracts of bark in it, and later from that legend, the Countess of Chinchon, who visited peru, returned to Spain with the park and renamed it "Quinine" and from hereafter (1638) it was used to treat the above illnesses with ease. However, this was faulty, the countess never had malaria and never returned back to spain due to her death in Columbia.
© Crazy randomosity 2011
Quinine is an alkaloid usually found (depending on where you live) in the bark of the cinchona tree and is usually used to treat illnesses including Malaria in the 1600's, which was quite a long time ago, and could be passed as a herbal remedy. It can also be used as a chemotherapeutic agent which battled against disease until the 1920's, and to eliminate fevers. Quinine was the first successful use of chemicals to treat very infectious diseases.
So how was it discovered?
Quinine is often refered to as the "sacred bark" for many reasons, it was seen as something overpowering. In many legends, they suggest that this may have been used in order to cure diseases during the time of the native population. It was discovered in many stories including a man getting lost with a fever in a forest and drank from a pool that he thought was infected, but it only had extracts of bark in it, and later from that legend, the Countess of Chinchon, who visited peru, returned to Spain with the park and renamed it "Quinine" and from hereafter (1638) it was used to treat the above illnesses with ease. However, this was faulty, the countess never had malaria and never returned back to spain due to her death in Columbia.
© Crazy randomosity 2011
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