Originally Posted By: Chris Kavanaugh
I believe Runge also identified Quinine, that most pleasant of malaria deterrents mixed with gin.


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Quinine may be familiar to you if you drink gin and tonic or perhaps vodka and tonic. This is because quinine is in the tonic and gives it that bitter taste. It is a white powder that is obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree that is found in the Andes mountain range of Ecuador and Peru. Quinine was introduced into Europe around 1640. However the destruction of these trees to obtain quinine made them rare and so a way of making it synthetically was sought. This was found in 1944 by Robert Woodward and William Doering.


Quinine Reference

There is some additional reference to Spanish priests taking it back to Spain and another that a Peruvian Viceroy's wife was cured with it. Regardless, it appears to have occurred around 1640. A couple of hundred years before Runge.

At any rate, I'll drink to that!
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