Quinine's Predecessor: Francesco Torti and the Early History of Cinchona by Saul Jarcho - 1993

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. hardcover. very good/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.<br/> <br/> Inscribed by author on front endpaper.<br/> <br/>

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993-05-01. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 354 pages : illustrations, 24 cm. <br> "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 -… Read More