Note 116 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
It appears, by a government return, that 2051 lbs. of quinine were sent to India in 1856, and 1180 lbs. in 1857.
The Friend of India of December 10th, 1860, however, quoting from the Lancet, states that the consumption of quinine and bark in the government hospitals in India in 1857-8 was 6815 lbs., and that in 1858-9 it amounted to 5087 lbs. The writer of the article adds that the government druggists in India sell quinine at 1l. an ounce; but, taking the cost of an ounce of quinine at 10s., the expenditure on this medicine, according to the above figures, would amount to 54,520l. in 1857-8, and to 40,696l. in 1858-9!