The Cinchona Station

The Amorphous Cinchona Alkaloids

Quinoidine was greater than that of Quinine and this honour has often been awarded to it since, though very little of the drug appears to have been used except as a tonic for horses. Major Waters' recent paper in the IMG seems to be having a greater effect on its sale. In every Quinine factory Quinine alone has been the important product. The other alkaloids are listed and occasionally one or o...

The Alkaloids of Cinchona

?n observations on the action o alkaloids in causing disappearance o parasites during an acute attack. Reports were received: , 7 (1) From Colonel Harvey who tinted 7 cases of benign tertian malaria with q bisulphate, 10 grains for 70 kilogrammes 'body weight. The drug was dissolved m dilute sul Phuric acid, one dose was given before break fast and one before the evening mea . Eleven patients w...

Cinchona Alkaloid

Therapeutics of the Cinchona Alkaloids

Dear Sik,?We have read with great interest the admirable review of the recent work on Therapeutics of the Cinchona Alkaloids, which appeared in your issue of November 1922, Vol. LVIT, No. 11, by Major R. N Chopra. The subject is of such paramount importance that this article is sure to be read and quoted as a valuable review of the present position, and we, therefore, think that the earliest op...

Portrait of the Coveted Cinchona

celebrated for her meticulous attention to detail, form, and color. Her collection of 833 paintings, which portray more than 900 species of plants, comprises her life’s work and is on permanent display in the Marianne North gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Because North painted with oils, rather than with watercolors, and because she predates color photography, her bod...