You beat me to the post! I picked these little goodies up yesterday.
Did you know quinine glows under a black light?
Did you know quinine glows under a black light?
Funny you should mention that. I'm binge watching Charlie Chan movies on YouTube. In "Charlie Chan's Secret", Charlie is investigating a man who is murdered while his family (who thought he'd died years before) is holding a seance. Charlie explains the dead man's face glowed because it had been treated with a solution of quinine and then exposed to ultraviolet light, not from any supernatural means. While trying to find the source of the quinine, Charlie fakes sneezing and says he has a cold to one character. He then asks the man if he has any quinine.
Charlie Chan's Secret - 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2KEf1U9FlA
I also listen to old radio shows. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was sponsored by Grove's Bromo Quinine Tablets, a medicine for the common cold, for a time. The ad shows up on several episodes I've listened to. Here's one.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Missing Submarine Plans
(From 1939, according to Archive.org.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bGtKeGeFjc
Grove's Bromo Quinine Tablets ad:
"A cold is a miserable thing. A cold may become a dangerous thing. Even a so-called light cold can take a serious turn. Be prompt, be decisive in your treatment of a cold. At the very first sign of a cold, take Grove's Bromo Quinine Tablets. Bromo Quinine Tablets quickly check the symptoms of a cold, quickly relieve the distress of a cold. They give you speedy results, which are very important. Don't monkey around when you can get such a dependable preparation as Grove's Bromo Quinine Tablets."
Just a couple of things that have caught my attention lately because of the quinine connection. :)