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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.
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"Jarcho's major contribution in this work is his careful elucidation of the early history of cinchona as a treatment for malaria -- a subject that has been obscured by unsubstantiated mythology for many years... A model for future studies." -- J. Worth Estes, M.D., Boston University School of Medicine
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JARCHO, S. QUININE'S PREDECESSOR. FRANCESCO TORTI AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF CINCHONA [HARDBACK]. BALTIMORE, MD, 1993, xviii 554 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.
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- EditoreJohns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1993
- ISBN 10 0801844665
- ISBN 13 9780801844669
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- Numero di pagine400
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hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good(+). Lightly illustrated in b/w. 354 pages. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1993). A very good copy--foxing to outer edges--in a very good(+) wrapper. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. Codice articolo 305708
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Quinine's Predecessor: Francesco Torti and the Early History of Cinchona (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine)
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 354 pages : illustrations, 24 cm. "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." - Johns Hopkins University Press. Codice articolo 2103230095
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