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After the family physician failed to "do something," Mrs. Silver accompanied her daughter to the two-bedroom, $40-a-month slum apartment of a bartender, Milton Schwartz and his wife, Rosalie, a hairdresser. There, the District Attorney charged, Doris was given a compound of oils, ground-up cinchona and slippery-elm bark to induce an abortion. Bits of irritating bark had reached her bloodstream and lungs, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Death of a Girl | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...since 1640, when extracts of "Jesuits' bark" (cinchona) from Peru first gave Europeans the benefits of quinine for their "ague," has there been such good news for the world's malaria victims, who number hundreds of millions. Doctors can now handle a feverish flare-up caused by practically any type of malaria, and they can prevent relapses in most types. More progress has been made in the last dozen years than in the last three centuries. Last week the A.M.A. Journal published up-to-date reports on some of the latest drugs, based on the experience of G.I.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Enemy | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

During the war, Dr. Kevorkian was a government agricultural advisor to Ecuador, where he was in charge of experimental stations developing rubber, cinchona, insecticidal plants and fibrous growths. From 1943 to 1946, he served as director in Nicaragua of the co-operative agriculture experiment station involving the U. S. State Department. He also served with the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director Selected for Cuban Botanie Center | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...practical Hollanders exploited the archipelago as one vast plantation, funneling its pepper, coffee, rubber, tin, oil and cinchona bark into world trade instead of their own, less voracious home market. They neither westernized nor Christianized the old (mainly Mohammedan) cultures. They did not get around to abolishing slavery until just before the U.S. did, gave the Indonesians no voice in government until this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAVA: The Prophecy | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...Woodward-Doering process is not a synthesis. It is a method of extracting quinidine (hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile of quinine can thus be turned to good use by converting it to the scarcer drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Quinidine | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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