The only serious adverse event was seen in a patient in the quinine group who developed fatal black water fever.

Your nose can smell up to 10, 000 different odors. Your touch can detect an item 1/25, 000th of an inch thick, and your tongue can taste one part of quinine in 2 million parts of water.

However, the drink was actually used as early as the late 1700's for medicinal purposes as quinine, or tonic water, and helped to prevent malaria.