Letter from W T Thiselton Dyer, Assistant Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to Secretary of State for India, 9 August 1882, on behalf of Sir Joseph Hooker, Director, disputing the supposed toxicity of cinchona febrifuge manufactured in Sikkim, and proposing steps to improve the manufacture of...
Report by Dr J E de Vrij, The Hague, on the Bengal cinchona febrifuge [remedy against fever], in letters dated 6 April and 6 September 1878 and 11 January 1879. Explains chemical composition of the febrifuge; discusses a component believed to have toxic effects; recommends that quinine and febri...