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Quinine

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The first effective treatment of malaria available to Western medicine. Refined from the bark of the Cinchona tree, native to the Andes mountains. Later imported from colonial holdings in India and Java, the raw cinchona bark was imported into the United Kingdom and processed into quinine at large chemical works such as City Mills and Chemical Works owned by Howard and Sons . Exports in 1911 stood at 1,839,852 ozs.