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Malaria comes from the Italian word Malaria or bad air For centuries malaria killed millions Alexander the Great was one of its betterknown 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 In 1735 Joseph de Jussieu set out for Latin America as the first nonSpanish expedition to be allowed to enter the continent The Peruvian bark or Jesuits powder had been known in Europe since 1644 but met with violent opposition from the medical establishment and the public So feared were papists in general and Jesuits in particular that throughout Protestant Europe there were demonstrations against the bark and the talk was of Papist plots to poison This changed when Charles II was cured by the bark and then the race was on to obtain seeds of the precious trees Fiametta Rocco who herself has had malaria explores the history of the ravages of the disease of the heroism and tragedy of those who have attempted to find cures and the manner in which the discovery of quinine opened the door of the tropics to western imperial adventure
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A rich and wonderful history of quinine the cure for malariaIn the summer of 1623 ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants engaged in electing a new Pope died from the malaria or bad air of the Roman marshes Their choice Pope Urban VIII determined that a cure should be found for the fever that was the scourge of the Mediterranean northern Europe and America and in 1631 a young Jesuit apothecarist in Peru sent to the Old World a cure that had been found in the New where the disease was unknownThe cure was quinine an alkaloid made of the bitter red bark of the cinchona tree which grows in the Andes Both disease and cure have an extraordinary history Malaria badly weakened the Roman Empire It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon during the Walcheren raid on Holland in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War It turned back many of the travellers who explored west Africa and brought the building of the Panama Canal to a standstill When after a thousand years a cure was finally found Europes Protestants among them Oliver Cromwell who suffered badly from malaria feared it was nothing more than a Popish poison More than any previous medicine though quinine forced physicians to change their ideas about treating illness Before long it would change the face of Western medicineUsing fresh research from the Vatican and the Indian Archives in Seville as well as hitherto undiscovered documents in Peru Fiammetta Rocco describes the ravages of the disease the quest of the three Englishmen who smuggled cinchona seeds out of South America the way quinine opened the door to Western imperial adventure in Asia Africa and beyond and why even today quinine grown in the eastern Congo still saves so many people suffering from malaria
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In the mid1950s with planning and funding from the United States Mexico embarked on an ambitious campaign to eradicate malaria which was widespread and persistent This new history explores the politics of that campaign Marcos Cueto describes the international basis of the program its national organization in Mexico its local implementation by health practitioners and workers and its reception among the population Drawing on archives in the United States Mexico and Switzerland he highlights the militant Cold War rhetoric of the founders and analyzes the mixed motives of participants at all levels Following the story through the dwindling campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s Cueto raises questions relevant to todays international health campaigns against malaria AIDS and tuberculosis
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Until the middle of the seventeenth century little was understood about malaria the deadly disease that decimated populations and crippled armies A legend however persisted about a beautiful Spanish countess who was cured during a stay in Peru by drinking a medicine made from the bark of a miraculous tree And so began the search for the elusive cinchona tree by a trio of British explorers who sought to rid the world of malaria Today in laboratories and research facilities the hunt continuesthis time for a vaccine against the disease that eludes all efforts to contain it
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Part science part riveting historical adventure about one of the great scourges to afflict mankindEvery year malaria kills 15 to 27 million people more than half of those deaths are children and 300 to 500 million people fall ill with the disease As of yet there is no cure Malaria is a deadly virus with a vicious ability to mutate it has over the centuries changed the course of history as epidemics swept through countries and devastated armies Until the middle of the seventeenth century little was understood about the nature of the disease or how to treat it But there was a legend about a beautiful Spanish countess the Condesa de Chinchón who was cured of malaria during her stay in Peru by drinking a medicine made from the bark of a miraculous tree This is the story of the search for the elusive cinchona tree the only source of quinine and the trio of British explorers who were given the task of transporting it to the colonies On a quest that was to absorb the rest of their lives Spruce Ledger and Markham endeavored to rid the world of malaria But although quinine and its chemical successors managed to control malaria for a time no method of prevention has been proven to be 100 effective In laboratories and research facilities the hunt continues this time for a vaccine The Fever Trail is a story of courage of geopolitical rivalry of the New World against the Old of the fabled curse of the cinchona tree and of a disease that eludes all efforts to contain it
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The Fever Trail is a fascinating trip through the history of Malaria and those that have sought to cure it The book starts with the hunt for the Cinchono tree the tree that yielded the cure for Malaria quinine The trio of explorers given the task of transporting the tree to the colonies gave most of their lives so that the world could be free of intermittent fevers They never though that the disease would mutate The modern pioneers no longer search out forests or spend months on dangerous rivers Instead they battle on in laboratories and facilities desperate to find what has eluded mankind for centuries A cure
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In the mid1950s with planning and funding from the United States Mexico embarked on an ambitious campaign to eradicate malaria which was widespread and persistent This new history explores the politics of that campaign Marcos Cueto describes the international basis of the program its national organization in Mexico its local implementation by health practitioners and workers and its reception among the population Drawing on archives in the United States Mexico and Switzerland he highlights the militant Cold War rhetoric of the founders and analyzes the mixed motives of participants at all levels Following the story through the dwindling campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s Cueto raises questions relevant to todays international health campaigns against malaria AIDS and tuberculosis
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A digital copy of Miraculous Medicines And The Chemistry Of Drug Design by Keighley Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Medicine Dog The Miraculous Cure sold for 59 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Julia Szabo was a nationallyrecognized pet reporter when her dog Sam collapsed from osteoarthritis Diligently researching how to restore his quality of life she discovered VetStem a service that provides cuttingedge regeneration therapy for pets using stem cells harvested from animals own tissue Just hours after receiving IV and intrajoint injections Sam began aging backwardwhich left Julia wondering why this simple effective treatment was not available for humansJulia suffered from chronic inflammatory bowel disease and after witnessing Sams astonishing recovery she set out on a curious quest to be treated like a dog by a doctor as competent as her vet After a fouryear wait Julia became the first American to be successfully cured of a perirectal fistula with stem cells derived from her own fat With this amazing true story of how a pack of shelter dogs she rescued from death row came to save her life Julia hopes to inspire and inform readers about exciting healthcare options available to them and their cherished animal companionsnbsp
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Featured twice on TBNs Praise the Lord television program Healing Celebrations reveals the hidden truths regarding your health wellbeing and miraculous healings The book reviews Dr Horowitzs famous 5step plan for miraculous healings including 1 detoxification 2 deacidification 3 boosting or normalizing natural immunity 4 oxygenation and 5 bioenergetic or biospiritual technologies Common sense simple inexpensive and practical suggestions are lovingly provided in an easytoread nurturing style
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The sinister junglethat illdefined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubtis the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination Films like Apocalypse Now television shows like Lost and of course stories like Heart of Darkness all pursue the essential question of why the unknown world terrifies adventurer and spectator alike In Jungle Fever Charlotte Rogers goes deep into five books that first defined the jungle as a violent and maddening place The reader finds urban explorers venturing into the wilderness encountering and living among the native inhabitants and eventually losing their mindsThe canonical works of authors such as Joseph Conrad Andre Malraux Jose Eustasio Rivera and others present jungles and wildernesses as fundamentally corrupting and dangerous Rogers explores how the methods these authors use to communicate the physical and psychological maladies that afflict their characters evolved symbiotically with modern medicine While the wilderness challenges Conrads and Malrauxs European travelers to question their civility and mental stability Latin American authors such as Alejo Carpentier deftly turn pseudoscientific theories into their greatest asset as their characters transform madness into an essential creative sparkUltimately Jungle Fever suggests that the greatest horror of the jungle is the unknown regions of the characters own mind
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Wellreceived on initial publication The Mind Tree is truly an enthralling read Although he is severely autistic and nearly nonverbal Titos ability to communicate through his extraordinary writing is astonishing At the age of three Tito was diagnosed with severe autism But his mother with boundless hope and determination read to him and taught him to write in English She also challenged him to write his own stories The result of their efforts is this remarkable book written when he was eight to eleven years old comprised of profound and startling philosophical prose and poetry During a New York Times interview Tito scrawled on a yellow pad I need to write It has become a part of me
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In the late summer of 1861 a small but frightening epidemic of yellow fever struck the French Atlantic port of Saint Nazairenbsp Coleman offers close scrutiny of this epidemic and of related earlier and contemporary experiences with yellow fever using their histories to determine how epidemics were analyzednbsp Students and scholars in the history of science medicineand public health will welcome Colemans close analysisBulletin of the History of Medicine
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Rabbi Shoni Labowitz unlocks the secrets of ancient Jewish mystical traditions in an inspiring enlightening book that will appeal to Jews seeking to rediscover their spiritual roots and to people of all faiths searching for a way of life that celebrates the sacredness of all things
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A digital copy of Dangerous Fever in the Emergency Department An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics by Emilie JB Calvello Christian Theodosis Download is immediately available upon purchase
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In the last half of the nineteenth century the American South was plagued by yellow fever epidemics This tropical disease stalked the Souths steaming urban areas killing its victims with overwhelming hepatitis and hemorrhage Its toll was devastating in the notorious 1878 epidemic alone 20000 people died in the Mississippi and Ohio valleysnbspnbspnbspnbsp nbspnbspnbspnbsp Margaret Humphreys tells the dramatic story of yellow fever in the urban South and of the attempt of public health officials to contain it Humphreys explores the ways in which yellow fever hampered commerce frustrated the scientific community and eventually galvanized local and federal authorities into forming public health boards Discovering that the desire to nurture economic growth lay at the heart of the Souths public health strategy she shows how the diseases impact on trade forced pecunious state governments to spend money on public health Yellow fever was also central to the growth of the US Public Health Services Humphreys pays particular attention to the various theories for stopping the disease and to the constant tension between state and federal officials over how public funds should be spentnbsp nbspnbspnbspnbsp Humphreys recovers a lost dimension of public health history by treating the specific concerns of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury South and broadens our understanding of the evolution of public health services in the United States
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The sinister junglethat illdefined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubtis the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination Films like Apocalypse Now television shows like Lost and of course stories like Heart of Darkness all pursue the essential question of why the unknown world terrifies adventurer and spectator alike In Jungle Fever Charlotte Rogers goes deep into five books that first defined the jungle as a violent and maddening place The reader finds urban explorers venturing into the wilderness encountering and living among the native inhabitants and eventually losing their mindsThe canonical works of authors such as Joseph Conrad Andre Malraux Jose Eustasio Rivera and others present jungles and wildernesses as fundamentally corrupting and dangerous Rogers explores how the methods these authors use to communicate the physical and psychological maladies that afflict their characters evolved symbiotically with modern medicine While the wilderness challenges Conrads and Malrauxs European travelers to question their civility and mental stability Latin American authors such as Alejo Carpentier deftly turn pseudoscientific theories into their greatest asset as their characters transform madness into an essential creative sparkUltimately Jungle Fever suggests that the greatest horror of the jungle is the unknown regions of the characters own mind
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In this collection of eleven stories murder is committed for reasons of fear jealously cupidity and out of sheer compulsion while the settings include an African game park a sinister ruined cemetery an East Anglian seaside resort and the gloomy purlieus of Epping Forest
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