The Andean wonder drug : cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800 /

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"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 ass...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crawford, Matthew James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
Temas:
Science > Social aspects.
Medicine > History.
Drugs > History.
Cinchona bark > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800.
History of Medicine
Sciences > Aspect social.
Médecine > Histoire.
Médicaments > Histoire.
Quinquina (Écorce) > Emploi en thérapeutique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
history of medicine.
SCIENCE > History.
SCIENCE > General.
Drugs
Medicine
Science > Social aspects
Early works
History
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