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 2016-05-12 with total page 0 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.

Download or read book A Singular Remedy written by Stefanie Gänger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

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.

Download or read book Cinchona Alkaloids in Synthesis and Catalysis written by Choong Eui Song and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive review of cinchona-based chiralilty inducers and their applications covers every topic, including ligands, immobilization and organocatalysis. Each chapter summarizes the scope and limitations of the new methods and technologies, while the final chapter contains carefully selected working procedures of cinchona alkaloid-promoted reactions organized according to reaction type. Invaluable reading for anyone wanting to learn about the current state of this hot topic.

Download or read book A Manual of Cinchona Cultivation in India written by George King and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book An Illustration of the Genus Cinchona written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Description of the Genus Cinchona written by Aylmer Bourke Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was presented to the Linnean Society of London. The description of some species are from the dissertation of Professor Martin Vahl (1744-1804) of Copenhagen. Additional species are described and accompanied by figures taken from the specimens themselves preserved in the Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks. Thirteen uncolored copper plate engravings accompany the descriptions. Plates 4, 5, 7-12 were illustrated by Ferdinand L. Bauer (1760-1826) an Austrian artist

Download or read book Review of Literature on Cinchona Diseases Injuries and Fungi written by Frances F. Lombard and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cinchona, the natural source of quinine, is a native tree of the slopes of the Andes. ... To meet the wartime needs of the Allied armed forces and the future needs of the civilian populations, the United States and other countries in the Western hemisphere cooperated in developing the cinchona industry in this hemisphere. ... This publication has been prepared in an effort to bring together the world literature on the diseases of cinchona."-- p. 1-2.

Download or read book Histology of Barks of Cinchona and Some Related Genera Occurring in Colombia written by United States. Foreign Economic Administration and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Histology of Barks of Cinchona and Some Related Genera Occurring in Colombia written by Ruby R. Little and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report on the Government Cinchona Plantation and Factory in Bengal for the Year written by Bengal (India). Government Cinchona Plantations and Factory and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Notes on the Medicinal Cinchona Barks of New Granada by H Karsten and on the Cinchona Trees of Huanuco in Peru written by Hermann Karsten and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prize Essay on Cinchona Cultivation Written for the Dikoya Planters Association written by Thomas North Christie and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dispensatory of the United States of America written by George Bacon Wood and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy written by William Charles Evans and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 3322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic reference work on pharmacognosy covers the study of those natural substances, principally plants, that find a use in medicine. Its popularity and longevity stem from the book's balance between classical (crude and powdered drugs' characterization and examination) and modern (phytochemistry and pharmacology) aspects of this branch of science, as well as the editor's recognition in recent years of the growing importance of complementary medicines, including herbal, homeopathic and aromatherapy. No other book provides such a wealth of detail. A reservoir of knowledge in a field where there is a resurgence of interest - plants as a source of drugs are of growing interest both in complementary medicine fields and in the pharmaceutical industry in their search for new 'lead compounds'. Dr Evans has been associated with the book for over 20 years and is a recognised authority in all parts of the world where pharmacognosy is studied, his knowledge and grasp of the subject matter is unique. Meticulously referenced and kept up to date by the editor, new contributors brought in to cover new areas. New chapter on 'Neuroceuticals'. Addition of many new compounds recently added to British Pharmacopoeia as a result of European harmonisation. Considers development in legal control and standardisation of plant materials previously regarded as 'herbal medicines'. More on the study of safety and efficacy of Chinese and Asian drugs. Quality control issues updated in line with latest guidelines (BP 2007).