Quinine Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange was an unintentional exchange of plants, animals, disease, and other products. One of these products happened to be able to use as a medicine to fight against Malaria, which at the time was very deadly to Europeans and slaves coming to the New World. It was called quinine. Quinine is extracted from the bark of a South American cinchona tree. Quinine was originally discovered to be a medicine when it cured a native who drank the bitter water that was contaminated by cinchona trees. It was accepted in Europe after a Peruvian Viceroy’s wife was cured of Malaria with quinine. It was finally introduced to Europe in the mid-1650s, where it was advertised in England, and eventually made official in the British Pharmacopeia (official

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