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Quinine's Predecessor

Author : Saul Jarcho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Quinine's Predecessor written by Saul Jarcho and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of cinchona has traditionally begun with the romantic - and now discredited - story of Francisca Henriquez Ribera, the Countess of Chinchon. According to legend, the Countess became seriously ill during an outbreak of fever in Lima around 1623. Her husband, the Viceroy, learning of a medicinal tree bark used by the local Indians, ordered the bark tested and administered to his wife. Following her prompt recovery, the Countess championed the use of bark among the general populace, and thousands of lives were saved. The drug became known as pulvis Comitissae, the powder of the Countess, and later - misspelled by Linnaeus - as cinchona. In Quinine's Predecessor Saul Jarcho unravels a tangle of myth, hearsay, and fact to establish the definitive history of cinchona bark - the still-important source of modern quinine. Jarcho explains the discovery of the healing property of the substance, also known as Peruvian bark or Jesuits' bark, and traces the routes by which it was transmitted from South America to Spain and other countries. He recounts the controversy and resistance surrounding its acceptance by medical practitioners. And he offers the most complete account to date of the important work of Francesco Torti, who used the bark successfully in treating cerebral and other especially dangerous malarial infections.

Saving Lives, Buying Time

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309165938
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Saving Lives, Buying Time written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africaâ€"currently just over one million per yearâ€"are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course. Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview of the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing access to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people in endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination treatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify.

Quinine's Remains

Author : Townsend Middleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520399129
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Quinine's Remains written by Townsend Middleton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India’s Darjeeling Hills, Quinine’s Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria’s only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations—and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home—remain. Their futures, however, are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but the plantation community, led by strident trade unions, has successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine’s remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the site of urgent efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865)

Author : Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865) written by Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fever Trail

Author : Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312421809
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Fever Trail written by Mark Honigsbaum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literally Italian for "bad air," malaria once plagued Rome, tropical trade routes and colonial ventures into India and South America and the disease has no known antidote aside from the therapeutic effects of the "miraculous" quinine. This first book from journalist Honigsbaum is a rousing history of the search for febrifuge or, more specifically, the rare red cinchona tree, the bark from which quinine is derived.

Antimalarial Chemotherapy

Author : Philip J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1592591116
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Antimalarial Chemotherapy written by Philip J. Rosenthal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Rosenthal, MD, and a panel of leading malaria experts drawn from academia, the military, and international health organizations survey the latest scientific understanding of antimalarial chemotherapy, emphasizing the molecular mechanisms of resistance and the description of important new targets. Their survey covers the current status of malarial and antimalarial chemotherapy, the relevant biology and biochemistry of malaria parasites, the antimalarial drugs currently available, new chemical approaches to chemotherapy, and possible new targets for chemotherapy. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, Antimalarial Chemotherapy: Mechanisms of Action, Resistance, and New Directions in Drug Discovery clearly delineates all the basic and clinical research now addressing one of the world's major unresolved disease problems, work that is now powerfully driving the rapid pace of antimalarial drug discovery today.

Drugs on Trial

Author : Andreas-Holger Maehle
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333290
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Drugs on Trial written by Andreas-Holger Maehle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the main issues of eighteenth-century pharmacology and therapeutics and provides detailed case studies of three key areas: lithontriptics (remedies against urinary stones), opium, and Peruvian bark (quinine).

The Andean Wonder Drug

Author : Matthew James Crawford
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981394
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Andean Wonder Drug written by Matthew James Crawford and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and distribution of this medicament by establishing a royal reserve of "fever trees" in Quito. Through this pilot project, the Crown pursued a new vision of imperialism informed by science and invigorated through commerce. But ultimately this project failed, much like the broader imperial reforms that it represented. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford explains why, showing how indigenous healers, laborers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark to demonstrate how the imperial politics of knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic ultimately undermined efforts to transform European science into a tool of empire.

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Malarial Subjects

Author : Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107172365
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Malarial Subjects written by Rohan Deb Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.

War and Disease

Author : Leo Slater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081354646X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book War and Disease written by Leo Slater and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria is one of the leading killers in the world today. Though drugs against malaria have a long history, attempts to develop novel therapeutics spanned the twentieth century and continue today. In this historical study, Leo B. Slater shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II. Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine–a natural cure–became harder to acquire. A U.S. government-funded antimalarial program, initiated by the National Research Council, brought together diverse laboratories and specialists to provide the best drugs to the nation's military. This wartime research would deliver chloroquinine–long the drug of choice for prevention and treatment of malaria–and a host of other chemotherapeutic insights. A massive undertaking, the antimalarial program was to biomedical research what the Manhattan Project was to the physical sciences. A volume in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series, edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden.

Bibliography of the History of Medicine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medical and surgical history of the civil war

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Medical and surgical history of the civil war written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385390060
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.

History of Men's Accessories

Author : Nicholas Storey
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848849923
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book History of Men's Accessories written by Nicholas Storey and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ideal book for anyone interested in men’s fashion from the past to the present day” from the author of History of Men’s Etiquette (Antiques Diary). This idiosyncratic book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through high-end grooming and care, from open razors, strops and Belgian Waterstone; silver-tipped badger shaving brushes and shaving soaps; through colognes and scents and even D. R. Harris’s Pick-Me-Up. It then moves onto dressing accessories, such as slippers, watches, cufflinks and shirt studs, and tie pins, even how to assess precious stones as well as a fascinating account, from primary sources, of the evolution of the dinner jacket-Tuxedo. Moreover, if you want to know not just how to mix drinks but something of their history, as well as the history of beer, cider and mead; sweets of all kinds, chocolate, tea and coffee; pairing food and drink; and then every essential fact about tobacco, pipes, Havana cigars, cigarettes and snuff, it’s all here. But it does not stop there. The journey continues on to a consideration of some of London’s fascinating venues, including pubs, clubs, restaurants, hotels and bars; some nice points of conduct and the author’s reflections on such things as feminine wiles (what women really look for) and even how to stop a fight. There is a chapter on selecting and buying gifts for the lady in your life, a dictionary of Anglo-American sartorial terms and it ends, as it begins, with thoughts of England as home. The author has submitted the book in draft to the scrutiny of leading world experts on the various topics and so, as well as being entertaining, it is backed by authority.

A History of Novartis

Author : Walter Dettwiler
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1800811179
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A History of Novartis written by Walter Dettwiler and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, the Swiss multinational Novartis traces its history and that of its predecessor companies back to the first dye factories in Basel in the early 19th century. This second edition of the company's history covers early exports and expansion abroad, the unparalleled upsurge of the chemical industry in Basel during the First World War and then the emergence of pharmaceuticals in the interwar years. The enormous challenges of the Second World War were followed by an economic boom in the 1950s and 60s, the merger of CIBA and Geigy, the numerous diversifications in the 1970s and 80s, the merger of Ciba and Sandoz to found Novartis, and finally the first 25 years of Novartis. Those 25 years have included innovations in pharmaceuticals and medicine, and game-changing technologies such as the modification of T-cells. In addition to the running text, fifteen thematic articles outline the company's widely different innovations: from CIBA's early hormone preparations to the outstanding graphic design of Geigy Design, from revolutionary drugs like Sandimmune or Gleevec right through to the Novartis Campus project.

Malarial Subjects

Author : Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316781046
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Malarial Subjects written by Rohan Deb Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most valuable extract, quinine, were reinforced as objects of natural knowledge and social control. In India, the exigencies and apparatuses of British imperial rule occasioned the close interactions between these histories. In the process, British imperial rule became entangled with a network of nonhumans that included, apart from cinchona plants and the drug quinine, a range of objects described as malarial, as well as mosquitoes. Malarial Subjects explores this history of the co-constitution of a cure and disease, of British colonial rule and nonhumans, and of science, medicine and empire. This title is also available as Open Access.