quinine

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Certain toxic compounds, like quinine, taste "bitter" to bees, so the researchers sought to find out whether this sense of taste could help them avoid drinking pesticides.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

Carbonated water failed to do that but it did inspire the creation of medicated water, or tonic water infused with quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2023

The quinine in tonic works just as well as the prescription used to.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Pharmaceuticals and anesthetics arrived, such as aspirin to relieve pain and fever and mass-produced quinine to treat malaria.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“The Methodist Mission gets us milk powder and vitamins to distribute in the villages along the river. The tins of food and quinine pills come from the ABFMS.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver