Only a few species had bark with a high yield of quinine, but these were not easy to identify, as trees of the same species varied morphologically in different ecological conditions and hybrids ...

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 ...

But some of its applications may surprise you. For example, did you know that canoes can be built from birch bark, or that quinine, the world's first anti-malarial drug, is derived from the bark ...

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

In the 1600s, Europeans began treating malaria patients with the bark. Finally, in 1820, French chemists Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Caventou extracted quinine from the bark, which became ...