If your doctor does, and you decide to try quinine, make sure that you're not at increased risk for serious side effects because of your health or other medications you may be taking (see risks ...

Perkin would have performed a combustion analysis, so he knew that aniline contained carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, and that he needed to add oxygen in order to make quinine. However, he had no ...

A laborer scrapes the bark from a cinchona tree. The bark is then sundried and pulverized to make the drug quinine. The story behind the chance discovery of the anti-malarial drug quinine may be ...

Augusta Cueva-Agila explains how the Cinchona officinalis, native to the Andean foothills, produced the world’s first anti-malarial drug ...