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"No other, mind you. The packet marked No. 1 give to your mother. Then give her the potion every hour. Give her the Quinquina wine when she eats, for she must eat anything she wants, especially eggs. I'll drop in again this evening." She ran out after him. "Is my mama very ill?" she asked. "Well ... try and get her to go to the hospital." "Can't you cure her?"
"<i Voyons, Rene, mon ami>," came the loud, cheerful voice of Madame Coutras, "what are you doing all this time? Here are the <i aperitifs>. Ask <i Monsieur> if he will not drink a little glass of Quinquina Dubonnet." "<i Volontiers>, Madame," I said, going out on to the verandah. The spell was broken. The time came for my departure from Tahiti.
I went this summer to Forges, to try, by means of the waters there, to get rid of a tertian fever that quinquina only suspended.
In 1679, Louis XIV. bought the secret of preparing quinquina from Sir Robert Talbor, an English doctor, for two thousand louis-d'or, a large pension and a title. Under the Grand Monarch it was used at dessert, mingled with Spanish wine. The delay of its discovery until the seventeenth century has probably lost to the world numbers of valuable lives.
It is rarely that they grow in groups. They are rather scattered through the forests, and the Indians who collect the quinquina can only recognize them by their foliage, always green." "Mr. Harris," said Mrs. Weldon, "if you see one of those trees you will show it to me." "Certainly, Mrs. Weldon, but at the farm you will find some sulphate of quinine.
Seven such women, all told. He relapsed into silence, and she likewise fell silent, there being nothing more to get nor give. They were all gone, intellectually. They had no ideas, nothing to exchange. So he smoked on, lazily, in silence, feeling the slight stir in his blood caused by the Quinquina. He filled his glass again, and looked forward to the next wave of relaxation.
Thence came the finest tobacco, the finest chocolate, the finest indigo, the finest cochineal, the hides of innumerable wild oxen, quinquina, coffee, sugar. Either the viceroyalty of Mexico or the viceroyalty of Peru would, as an independent state with ports open to all the world, have been an important member of the great community of nations.
"Some of its virtues, if not all, were known to the Peruvians long before they were discovered by Europeans." "Ah! that is the reason it is called quinine by the English," observed John. "I did not before know the derivation of the word." "Since its use became general in Europe, the export trade of the quinquina has been very considerable," observed Don Jose.
I went this summer to Forges, to try, by means of the waters there, to get rid of a tertian fever that quinquina only suspended.
One of these specimens was a variety of the Carua-carua, with large leaves heavily veined: the other was an individual resembling those quinquinas which the botanists Ruiz and Pavon have discriminated from the cinchonas, to make a separate family called the Quinquina cosmibuena. After all, the discovery was rather an indication than a conquest of value.
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