A Singular Remedy

A Singular Remedy
Author: Stefanie Gänger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 110884216X

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

Malarial Subjects

Malarial Subjects
Author: Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107172365

This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.

Quinine's Predecessor

Quinine's Predecessor
Author: Saul Jarcho
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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.

The Watchdog That Didn't Bark

The Watchdog That Didn't Bark
Author: Dean Starkman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0231536283

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details “how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years” (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation). In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He examines the deep cultural and structural shifts—some unavoidable, some self-inflicted—that eroded journalism’s appetite for its role as watchdog. The result was a deafening silence about systemic corruption in the financial industry. Tragically, this silence grew only more profound as the mortgage madness reached its terrible apogee from 2004 through 2006. Starkman frames his analysis in a broad argument about journalism itself, dividing the profession into two competing approaches—access reporting and accountability reporting—which rely on entirely different sources and produce radically different representations of reality. As Starkman explains, access journalism came to dominate business reporting in the 1990s, a process he calls “CNBCization,” and rather than examining risky, even corrupt, corporate behavior, mainstream reporters focused on profiling executives and informing investors. Starkman concludes with a critique of the digital-news ideology and corporate influence, which threaten to further undermine investigative reporting, and he shows how financial coverage, and journalism as a whole, can reclaim its bite. “Can stand as a potentially enduring case study of what went wrong and why.”—Alec Klein, national bestselling author of Aftermath “With detailed statistics, Starkman provides keen analysis of how the media failed in its mission at a crucial time for the U.S. economy.”—Booklist

A Memoir of the Lady Ana De Osorio

A Memoir of the Lady Ana De Osorio
Author: Clements Markham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2023-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368801872

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

The Fever Trail

The Fever Trail
Author: Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312421809

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.

Drugs on Trial

Drugs on Trial
Author: Andreas-Holger Maehle
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789042007932

This book describes the main issues of eighteenth-century pharmacology and therapeutics and provides detailed case studies of three key areas: lithontriptics (remedies against urinary stones), opium, and Peruvian bark (quinine).