People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — Theory About Quinine. [ARTICLE]

Theory About Quinine.

It is claimed that the tree from the bark of which quinine is obtained furnishes no quinine except in malarial regions. If the tree is planted in a malarial district it will produce quinine; if it is planted in a non-malarial district it will not produce quinine. It is, therefore, inferred that quinine is a malarial poison, drawn from the soil and stored up in the bark of this tree. The devil has an iron collar on every man who thinks more of the saloon than be does of his hornet