Quinine
InventorUnknown (Quechua)
YearAncient
CategoryMedicine
OriginPeru
About Quinine
The Quechua people used cinchona bark to treat malaria. Jesuit missionaries brought it to Europe in the 1630s. It remained the primary antimalarial until the 1940s. Tonic water contains quinine, origin of the gin and tonic.
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