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 An Illustration of the Genus Cinchona written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cinchona Barks Pharmacognostically Considered written by Friedrich August Flückiger and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Statistics of Cinchona Bark written by John Hamilton (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiments and Observations on Quilled and Red Peruvian Bark Among which are Included Some Remarkable Effects Arising from the Action of Common Bark and Magnesia Upon Each Other By Thomas Skeete M D written by Thomas Skeete and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 412 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 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 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 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.
Download or read book Report on the Expedition to Procure Seeds and Plants of the Cinchona Succirubra Or Red Bark Tree written by Richard Spruce and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Statistics of Cinchona Bark written by John Hamilton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Peruvian Bark written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Markham, a Victorian geographer and explorer, conceived the notion of a cheap supply of quinine for the treatment of malaria for use in India. He organized several teams to go to Peru to collect the most promising varieties of cinchona, one of which he lead himself. After suffering great hardship in the jungle he managed to obtain some 500 seedlings, but they all died en route to India. Another of his teams was lead by Richard Spruce who did obtain seedlings and seeds, although they later proved to be of a variety that did not produce the largest amount of quinine. The work is an interesting adventure and description of events and is a valuable part of the story of the development of a cure for malaria, which is still of major concern. The author discusses the merits and locations of many cinchona varieties and related plants"--description from abebooks website.
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 A Description of the Genus Cinchona written by Aylmer Bourke Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cinchona Barks written by Friedrich August Fluckiger and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Experiments on the Red and Quill Peruvian Bark written by Ralph Irving and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
