Quinine is a drug that is used to treat fevers such as malaria. a drug used for treating fevers, especially malaria (quina name of the tree from which quinine is obtained, from quinaquina). Alkaloid found in the bark of cinchona trees and shrubs. The chemical structure of this heterocyclic compound is large and complex, with several rings. For the 300 years preceding the 1940s, when newer antimalarials were developed, quinine was the only drug known to Western medicine for the prevention and treatment of malaria. The first chemical compound ever used successfully against an infectious disease, it has benefited more people than any other such drug in history and is still used to treat malaria, often in combination with other drugs. Quinine is also a flavouring agent in some carbonated beverages, including tonic water
A bitter-tasting drug obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree This plant is related to coffee and gardenia Quinine has been used in the treatment of malaria
in the past, quinine was responsible for producing sensorineural impairment, as it was a popular agent in the treatment of malaria and even the common cold With the control of malaria, and the development of other drugs for treating malaria, quinine is no longer extensively used Today, the drugs that are chiefly responsible for causing sensori-neural hearing loss are streptomycin, or more properly, dihydrostreptomycin, which has a toxic effect on the acoustic portion of the eighth nerve, neomycin and kanamycin