“…A German pharmacist and quinine fabricant in Nordhorn (today in Lower Saxony, Germany), Ernst Firnhaber, who procured chinchona bark from Amsterdam and supplied quinine to the Dutch colonies (Kühle, 1970), in 1826 published a note by Friedrich Ludwig Liesching (1757-1841) on the virtues of buchu (Firnhaber, 1826) which also mentioned its already established use in the Netherlands. Firnhaber's friendship with the editor of the journal, notable scientist, and co-founder of what became the German pharmacists association, Rudolph Brandes, helped spread the word throughout the association, which by 1821 already had over 100 members, and resulted in further publications and scientific investigation (Brandes, 1826;Brandes, 1827).…”