The use of quinine during the Civil War.

  • Churchman, John W. (John Woolman), 1877-1937.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: The use of quinine during the Civil War. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    [181] ernment at the Philadelphia laboratory alone of over $766,000 between March, 1863, and September, 1865. As for the supply of the drug to the country—so long as our present coast-line persists a complete blockade seems rather improbable. Yet the quinine problem was a very real one in the struggle between the North and South. If, as Goldwin Smith said in his Man- chester speech, the conclusion of the war meant that slavery was dead everywhere and forever this was an achievement worth paying something for. But in estimating the price, do not think only or chiefly of the life lost in the four unfortunate years. Remember as well the disability and debility they left behind them; and in considering the vast financial perplexities which came when reconstruction days began, do not overlook the quinine monopoly which the war had made possible but which a suffering people finally overthrew. >16)