Re: What IF: ... Japan had more Oilers for Dec.7'41 ?

On Aug 28, 2:46=A0pm, Stephen Graham  wrote:

> >>> With the Japanese holding the world's only sources of quinine, the
> >>> only drug then effective against malaria.
> >> What on earth are you on about? Quinine is a derivative of a tree
that=
's
> >> native to Peru.
>
> > Does no one at this site use google ?
>
> a) this isn't a site, it's a Usenet group.

I read it at
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/browse_thread/thread/514=
1271e70880ad2/e875af35856de8ba#e875af35856de8ba
so it seems like one to me.

> b) you didn't bother to do so. Otherwise you would have noticed that
> quinine wasn't native to the NEI.

Why would I care where it originated when I already knew that the NEI
had the world's supply pretty much "cornered"  in 1941 ? Peru or
Hoboken doesn't matter to the soldier fighting and dying of malaria on
the PIs and NEIs

> c) you would have also noticed that the Allies also used other
> anti-malarials during World War II.

Yeah and I also noticed that atabrite only controls one of the two
major forms of malaria and is toxic to some people. If you look at the
development dates of the other drugs you'll see that most of them
weren't as effectiver and could not have been in widespread
distribution during the 1941/42 timeframe that we discuss here.