Quinine

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IIZTÍZTtGl The Jesuits discovered it. The Protestants feared it. The British vied with the Dutch for it, and the nazis seized it. because of quinine, medicine, warfare, and exploration were changed forever. or more than one thousand years, there was no cure for malaria. In 1623, after ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Romé while electing Úrban VII the new popé, he announced that a cure must be found. He encouraged Jesuit priests establishing new missions in Asia and in South America to learn everything they could about how the local people treated the disease, and in 1631, an apothecarist in Peru named Agostino Salumbrino dispatched a new miracle to Rome. The cure was quinine, an alkaloid made from the bittér red bark of the cinchona tree. From the quest of the Englishmen who smuggled cinchona seeds out of South America to the way in which quinine opened the door to Western imperial adventure in Asia, Africa, and beyond, and to malaria's effects even today,... Tovább

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IIZTÍZTtGl The Jesuits discovered it. The Protestants feared it. The British vied with the Dutch for it, and the nazis seized it. because of quinine, medicine, warfare, and exploration were changed forever. or more than one thousand years, there was no cure for malaria. In 1623, after ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Romé while electing Úrban VII the new popé, he announced that a cure must be found. He encouraged Jesuit priests establishing new missions in Asia and in South America to learn everything they could about how the local people treated the disease, and in 1631, an apothecarist in Peru named Agostino Salumbrino dispatched a new miracle to Rome. The cure was quinine, an alkaloid made from the bittér red bark of the cinchona tree. From the quest of the Englishmen who smuggled cinchona seeds out of South America to the way in which quinine opened the door to Western imperial adventure in Asia, Africa, and beyond, and to malaria's effects even today, award-winning author Fiammetta Rocco deftly chronicles the story of this historically ravenous disease. "This engrossing, beautifully crafted history is a parable for our times." -The Spectator "Ms. Rocco telis her four-century saga briskly, with a confident blend of scholarship "Snappy and sharp, picaresque but scholarly: it's almost a crime that so heinous a disease

and memoir. Wall Street Journal should be treated to so grand a biography. Kirkus Reviews Every episode of her narrative enthralls. Booklist [An] absorbing and superbly researched history. - Sunday Times of London Don't miss the next book by your favorité author. Sign up now for AuthorTracker by visiting www.AuthorTracker.com. Vissza