Quinine

Quinine is an important standard for fluorescence spectrometry; its appearance in urine has found use as a diagnostic for heroin use (due to the latter being commonly 'cut' with quinine); and you can even use tonic water to make fluorescent jelly for Halloween and fluorescent cocktails.

Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004

Quinine is an important standard for fluorescence spectrometry; its appearance in urine has found use as a diagnostic for heroin use (due to the latter being commonly 'cut' with quinine); and you can even use tonic water to make fluorescent jelly for Halloween and fluorescent cocktails.

Glowing tonic water Ray Girvan 2004

Quinine tree Chinchona succirubra and mora Caesalpinia bonduc have altered parts of the humid zone of Santa Cruz and San Cristobal.

Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

Quinine has been used for more than three centuries and, until the 1930s, it was the only effective malaria treatment.

2010 July « The View From LL2 2010

Quinine has been used for more than three centuries and, until the 1930s, it was the only effective malaria treatment.

2010 « The View From LL2 2010

Quinine water, or tonic, originally developed in India as an antimalaria nostrum, became a masking agent for gin of dubious origin.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Quinine water, or tonic, originally developed in India as an antimalaria nostrum, became a masking agent for gin of dubious origin.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Also thriving are some species traditionally used for medicinal properties such as American Quinine for treating Malaria, ipecac for treating poisoning, witch hazel to soothe itching, and catnip to drive cats crazy.

Anjuli Ayer: The High Line: Think, Reuse, Grow Up 2009

They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.

The Good Old Days / Happiness Was In The Medicine Cabinet 2009

Globally, several anti-malarial drugs are available for treatment by continuous intravenous infusion; Quinidine is the only intravenous medicine available in the United States, Quinine is the only one in Canada, and Artesunate is available in some countries.

Malaria 2008