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Quinine by Fiammetta Rocco, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Quinine by Fiammetta Rocco, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Quinine by Fiammetta Rocco, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Quinine by Fiammetta Rocco, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The fascinating story of the intensive search to discover and possess quinine-the only known cure for malaria Malaria kills someone every 12 minutes in Africa. Now known mostly as a disease of the tropics, malaria led to the demise of the Roman Empire 2, 000 years ago and ravaged Europe for years afterwards. At the start of the 17th century, Jesuit priests developed quinine, an alkaloid made out of the bitter red bark of the cinchona tree from the Andes. When quinine arrived in Europe, the Protestant powers resisted the medicine fearing that it was a Popish poison. Quinine's reputation improved, however, when King Charles II was cured of malaria through its offices. Through the centuries, wars were fought to control the supply-through the building of the Panama Canal and into WWII-until Americans synthesized quinine for the first time in 1944. Rocco describes the ravages of the disease, the search for a cure, and the quest to steal and smuggle cinchona seeds out of South America. The Miraculous Fever Tree deftly illuminates the religious and scientific rivalries, intrepid exploration and colonization evinced by the search for quinine. | Quinine by Fiammetta Rocco, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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