How many of us know that the wife of a
Viceroy of Peru who fell ill of a fever gave her name to that invaluable medicine, quinine ? No doubt there is a romance connected with the Spanish gentleman, who although he was living six hundred miles away from the Countess of Chinchona, sent her a parcel of powdered bark when he heard she was suffering from " tertiana." We know nothing of the story except this, that the Countess took the bark and recovered from her fever, and that the tree has been called by her name ever since. This and much other interesting information is recorded by the Dowager Lady Carnarvon in Malaria (Bale Sons and Danielson. ls.). Lady Carnarvon has a first hand knowledge of the incidence and prevention of malaria, and in a very small compass she gives us much valuable information which will be of service to all engaged in combating this dreaded scourge. Sir Ronald Ross contributes a short preface.
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