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... cinchona ( pitayensis ) which contains a worth - while amount of quinine and quinidine . Quinidine , which is used in certain types of heart disease , is in urgent demand . Dr. Steere believed the same variety could be found in the ...
... cinchona ( pitayensis ) which contains a worth - while amount of quinine and quinidine . Quinidine , which is used in certain types of heart disease , is in urgent demand . Dr. Steere believed the same variety could be found in the ...
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... cinchona bark , source of quinine . To get it , explorers endured equatorial sun and freezing nights . Shaded Cinchona Seedlings Are Tied for Shipment in Ecuador Quinine. 349 moving up the tortuous road from the coast to Quito almost ...
... cinchona bark , source of quinine . To get it , explorers endured equatorial sun and freezing nights . Shaded Cinchona Seedlings Are Tied for Shipment in Ecuador Quinine. 349 moving up the tortuous road from the coast to Quito almost ...
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Shaded Cinchona Seedlings Are Tied for Shipment in Ecuador Quinine and its substitutes are keys to world power , as they enable white men to work and fight in the Tropics . When a black market absorbed our fighting men's source of ...
Shaded Cinchona Seedlings Are Tied for Shipment in Ecuador Quinine and its substitutes are keys to world power , as they enable white men to work and fight in the Tropics . When a black market absorbed our fighting men's source of ...
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