The Miraculous Fever-tree

The Miraculous Fever-tree
Title The Miraculous Fever-tree PDF eBook
Author Fiammetta Rocco
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 371
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 0006532357

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"In 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died from the 'mal'aria' or 'bad air' of the Roman marshes while electing a new Pope. Their choice, Urban VIII, determined that a cure be found for the fever that was the scourge of Europe. In 1631 a young Jesuit apothecary in Peru sent to the Old World a cure that had been found in the New - where the disease was unknown." "The cure was quinine, an alkaloid made from the bitter red bark of the cinchona tree, which grows in the Andes. Europe's Protestants feared it was nothing more than a Catholic poison, but before long quinine would change the face of medicine and open the door to Western imperial adventure in Asia, Africa and beyond." --Book Jacket.

The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World (Text Only)

The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World (Text Only)
Title The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World (Text Only) PDF eBook
Author Fiammetta Rocco
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 371
Release 2012-05-31
Genre History
ISBN 0007392796

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A rich and wonderful history of quinine – the cure for malaria.

The Miraculous Fever-tree

The Miraculous Fever-tree
Title The Miraculous Fever-tree PDF eBook
Author Fiammetta Rocco
Publisher
Pages 348
Release 2003
Genre Cinchona
ISBN 9780002572026

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Malaria comes from the Italian word Mal'aria or bad air. For centuries malaria killed millions - Alexander the Great was one of its better-known victims - and its debilitating effects have been linked to the demise of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. The traditional remedies of bloodletting killed off many who may have been spared by the fevers.

The Fever

The Fever
Title The Fever PDF eBook
Author Sonia Shah
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 319
Release 2010-06-29
Genre Medical
ISBN 1429981172

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This deep dive into humanity’s very long fight against malaria is “a vivid and compelling history with a message that’s entirely relevant today” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction). In a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? Philanthropists from Laura Bush to Bono to Bill Gates have contributed to the effort to find a cure for malaria—but there’s much more that can be done to minimize its deadly effects. In The Fever, journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we’ve invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria’s jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity. “Fascinating . . . an absorbing account of human ingenuity and progress, and of their heartbreaking limitations.” —Publishers Weekly “A thrilling detective story, spanning centuries, about our erratic pursuit of a villain still at large . . . rich in colorful detail.” —Malcolm Molyneux, Professor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

The Fever Trail

The Fever Trail
Title The Fever Trail PDF eBook
Author Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 356
Release 2003-05
Genre History
ISBN 9780312421809

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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.

Terms of Use

Terms of Use
Title Terms of Use PDF eBook
Author Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 241
Release 2008-01-01
Genre Law
ISBN 080209046X

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Sequel to : No Trespassing.

Neem

Neem
Title Neem PDF eBook
Author Ellen Norten
Publisher Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Pages 100
Release 1999-12
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780892818372

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Used in India for more than 4,000 years, neem is a powerful blood purifier, anti-viral agent, and immune system enhancer.