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Unfortunately, there's no incentive to find a cure for anything. Think about how much money the drug manufacturers and the insurance companies make on sick people. Since Dr. Salk found the cure for polio what else has been cured???????
That profit motive cuts several ways for sure. Quinine is an example of a very important drug that did not get produced in volume and come to market because it could not be licensed and anyone could sell it. It's a good reason that the National Institute for Healh should be involved in medical research since it's for the good of all not just profit.
But put a simple tomato in the hands of Europeans..History of Tomatoes
Yes, you are correct about use in malaria. It also has been used for leg cramps, but that use is unapproved by the FDA. Never been proven to be safe and effective for that use and around 2006 they ordered a bunch of quinine products off the market.
Yes malaria treatment, recorded as the first chemical treatment of a disease. Malaria is apparently still the most deadly disease worldwide. The real stuff was from the bark of a tree, synthetics developed during WWII due to a shortage of the bark. There is a story that the Brits had less malaria because the drank Gin and Tonic which tonic apparently contains quinine !! Don't know about the leg cramps, but hey it's a good excuse to drink !!