Word: cinchona
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...diseases, saps the strength of some 800,000,000 people throughout the world. Although there is no safe drug that directly kills malaria parasites (carried by the Anopheles mosquito), the chills & fever and other symptoms can be controlled by dosing with quinine, made from the bitter bark of the cinchona tree...
...were coming to the Harmonic Club in Batavia, to the sumptuous Grand Hotel Preanger in Bandung, to the Navy Club in Surabaya, where Conrad Helfrich had passed many solid Dutch afternoons in drink and talk. They were coming to the tin mines, the oil wells, the rice sawahs, the cinchona groves, the rubber plantations where for money and empire many a Dutchman had sweated out his life. To Conrad Helfrich, as to all true colonial Dutchmen, these islands were home in a sense that Holland never could be. Now Hitler had Holland, and the Indies was their only home...
...Washington. Opium is perhaps the most important drug used by doctors. Formerly, the U.S. imported over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly imported from Yugoslavia, Italy, Russia. A minuscule amount is grown in the U.S. During World War I about 300 tons a year were produced at home, but after...
...markets last week; black pepper to 3.86? a lb. Wool futures also rose to $1.175 a lb., implicating Australia. Unquoted on any organized market, but nonetheless crucial to U. S. defense, was quinine, of which the U. S. has none too much on hand. Practically all cinchona bark (from which quinine is made) comes from The Netherlands East Indies...
...rubber to be tapped in Sumatra, oil to be drilled for in Borneo and Java, tin to be dug in Bangka. Coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...