| 1863 - 622 pages
...cinchona is now esta* The discovery of quinine is due to the French chemists Pelletier and Caventon, in 1820 ; they considered that a vegetable alkaloid...in the different kinds of bark called quinine and cinchoniue with the same virtues, which, however, were much more powerful in quinine. — Markham's... | |
| 1863 - 616 pages
...courage and tact that * The discovery of quinine ii due to the French chemists Pelletier and Caventon, in 1820: they considered that a vegetable alkaloid...in the different kinds of bark called quinine and cinchonine with the same virtues, which, however, were much more powerful in quinine. — Mar/Juim's... | |
| 1863 - 606 pages
...courage and tact that • The discovery of quinine is due to the French chemists Pelletier and Oaventon, in 1820: they considered that a vegetable alkaloid...in the different kinds of bark called quinine and cinchoninc with the same virtues, which, however, were much more powerful in quinine.—Markham's Travels,... | |
| 1863 - 662 pages
...having more or less similar qualities, exist in different proportions in the species of Chinchona. ' The final discovery of quinine is ' due to the French chemists Pelletier and Gaventon, in 1820. ' They considered that a vegetable alkaloid, analogous to mor' phine and strychnine,... | |
| Mountain adventures - 1869 - 404 pages
...the Portuguese navy, in 1816, was the first to isolate this principle, and he called it chinchonine. But the final discovery of quinine is due to the French...in the different kinds of bark, called quinine and chinchonine, with the same virtues, which, however, were much more powerful in quinine. The discovery... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...the first to isolate this febrifuge principle hinted at by Dr. Duncan, and he called it chinchonine.* But the final discovery of quinine is due to the French...quinquina bark ; and they afterwards discovered that the febrifuge principle was seated in two alkaloids, separate or to* Briquet, p. 22, gether, in the different... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - 1885 - 430 pages
...the Portuguese navy, in 1816, was the first to isolate this principle, and he called it chinchonine. But the final discovery of quinine is due to the French chemists Pelletier and Caveutou in 1820. They considered that a vegetable alkaloid, analogous to morphine and strychnine,... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...was, our author tells us, ' the first to isolate the febrifugal principle. He called it chinchonine ; but the final discovery of quinine is due to the French chemists Pelletier and Caventou, in 1820.' Don Francisco Jos6 de Caldas, a native of New Granada, one of the most eminent men that South America... | |
| 1863 - 606 pages
...tact that * The discovery of quinine is due to the French chemists Pelletier and t -•• \' -iii in. in 1820 : they considered that a vegetable alkaloid analogous to morphine and strychnine existed iu quinquina bark, and they afterwards discovered that the febrifugal principle was seated in two alkaloids,... | |
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