quinine
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- n a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy
- Quinine, he suggested, may actually be harmful by blocking the body's defense reactions.
- In Africa, where resistance to quinine is spreading rapidly, 2 million people, mostly children, die from the disease annually.
- Because a Spaniard in Peru discovered just 300 years ago that crude quinine cured malaria, most devastating of diseases the world over, a small group of learned botanists and.