"Cinchona" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... luxuriance of growth in rich, tilled earth. Wild medicinal plants, so important in the rustic materia medica of New England—such as pennyroyal, for example—are generally much less aromatic and powerful when cultivated in gardens than when self-sown on meagre soils. On the other hand, the cinchona, lately introduced from South America into British India and carefully cultivated there, is found to be richer in quinine than ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh
... to the cinchona alkaloids, we meet with exceedingly interesting results. Quinine, C{20}H{24}N{2}O{2}, when carefully oxidized with chromic acid or potassium permanganate, yields a series of products. First is formed quitenine, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various
... the party to a site of the same name, through an interval of forest where might be counted most of the varieties of tree proper to the equatorial highlands. Up to this point the vegetation everywhere abounding had not indicated the presence, or even the vicinage, of the cinchona. The only circumstance which brought it to the notice of the inexperienced leaders of the expedition would be a halt made from time to time by the Bolivian bark-hunters. The examinador and his cascarilleros, touching one tree or another with their hatchets, would exchange ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various
... no sign of the looked-for body of inland water with its treasure island, though the increasing presence of cinchona trees told him that he was already ascending into the region ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood
... (it is erroneously spelt cinchona) tree constitutes the type of a natural order (Chinchonaceae), which ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston |
