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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Autor principal: Crawford, Matthew James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science > Social aspects.
Medicine.
Drugs.
SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > History.
history of medicine.
Quinquina (Écorce) > Emploi en therapeutique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Medicaments > Histoire.
Medecine > Histoire.
Sciences > Aspect social.
History of Medicine
Cinchona bark > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800.
Drugs > History.
Medicine > History.
History.
Early works.
Electronic books.
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The Andean wonder drug : cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800 /
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