Search results for [Cinchona] at NC Cardinal

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The miraculous fever tree : malaria and the quest for a cure that changed the world / by Rocco, Fiammetta.(CARDINAL)785890;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-337) and index.

Subjects: Malaria; Quinine; Cinchona;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Most delicious poison : the story of nature's toxins--from spices to vices / by Whiteman, Noah,author.(CARDINAL)881003;

Deadly daisies -- Forests of phonolics and flavonoids -- Toxic, titillating, tumor-killing terpenoids -- Dogbane and digitalis -- Hijacked hormones -- Abiding alkaloids -- Caffeine and nicotine -- Devil's breath and silent death -- Opioid overlords -- The herbivore's dilemma -- The spice of life -- Nutbeg, tea, opium, and cinchona -- The future pharmacopoeia.""An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature's toxins and why we are attracted--and addicted--to them, in this 'magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force' (Neil Shubin). A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes. Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxglove leaf, a magic-mushroom cap, a marijuana bud, or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin), recover from surgery (opioids), cure infections (penicillin), mend our hearts (digoxin), bend our minds (psilocybin), calm our nerves (CBD), and even kill our enemies (cyanide). But why do plants and fungi produce such chemicals? And how did we come to use and abuse some of them? Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals: The origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals; The mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them; How a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience; And much more. This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but also is intimately tied to our own successes and failures. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable, or even the past five hundred years of human history the same way again" --

Subjects: Botanical surveys.; Informational works.; Toxins; Human-plant relationships.;

Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 16

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Fifty plants that changed the course of history / by Laws, Bill,author.(CARDINAL)327970;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Agave -- Onion -- Pineapple -- Bamboo -- Wild cabbage -- Tea -- Hemp -- Chili pepper -- Cinchona -- Sweet orange -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cilantro -- Saffron -- Papyrus -- Foxglove -- Yam -- Cardamom -- Coca -- Eucalyptus -- Ferns -- Soybean -- Upland cotton -- Sunflower -- Rubber -- Barley -- Hop -- Indigo -- Sweet pea -- Lavender -- Crab apple -- White mulberry -- Nutmeg -- Tobacco -- Olive -- Rice -- Opium poppy -- Black pepper -- English oak -- Dog rose -- Sugar cane -- White willow -- Potato -- Cacao -- Common wheat -- Tulip -- Vanilla -- Wine grape -- Corn -- Ginger."[This] is a beautifully illustrated book that uncovers the fascinating stories of fifty plants originating in all corners of the globe. Each plant profiled has played a central role in human history and greatly affected our lifestyle, even today."--Page 4 of cover

Subjects: Plants and history.; Plants, Useful.;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12

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Flora and fauna of the Civil War : an environmental reference guide / by Ouchley, Kelby,1951-(CARDINAL)500004;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The Civil War setting -- Flora -- Ash -- Baldcypress -- Beech -- Blackberry -- Cane -- Chestnut and chinquapin -- Cinchona -- Cottonwood -- Dogwood -- Elm -- Grape -- Herbs -- Huckleberry -- Juniper -- Locust -- Magnolia -- Maple -- Mistletoe -- Mulberry -- Oak -- Palmetto -- Persimmon -- Pine -- Sassafras -- Spanish moss -- Sumac -- Sweetgum -- Sycamore -- Walnut, hickory, and pecan -- Willow -- Fauna -- Alligator -- Bats -- Bears -- Birds -- Body lice, ticks, and harvest mites -- Dolphins, porpoises, and whales -- Fish -- Flies and mosquitoes -- Frogs -- Honeybee -- Lizards -- Mollusks -- Opossum -- Oysters -- Rabbits -- Rats -- Snakes -- Squirrels -- Turtles -- Miscellaneous invertebrates -- Miscellaneous mammals -- Afterword: Impacts.

Subjects: Ecology; Natural history; Natural history; Animals; Animals; Plants; Plants;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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Plants and empire : colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world / by Schiebinger, Londa L.(CARDINAL)281275;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-297) and index."In this account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean population."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Pride-of-Barbados (Plant); Herbal abortifacients; Slavery;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Lives of the trees : an uncommon history / by Wells, Diana,1940-(CARDINAL)330341; Lovett, Heather.(CARDINAL)561646;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Acacia -- Alder -- Almond -- Apple -- Apricot -- Ash -- Aspen -- Avocado -- Bald cypress -- Bamboo -- Banana -- Baobab -- Beech -- Birch -- Box -- Breadfruit -- Cacao -- Catalpa -- Cedar -- Cherry -- Chestnut -- China fir -- Cinchona -- Cinnamon -- Clove -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cork -- Cottonwood -- Cypress -- Date -- Ebony -- Elder -- Elm -- Eucalyptus -- Fig -- Fir -- Frankincense -- Franklin tree -- Ginkgo -- Golden rain -- Handkerchief tree -- Hawthorn -- Hazel -- Hemlock -- Holly -- Hornbeam -- Horse chestnut -- Japanese cedar -- Joshua tree -- Juniper -- Larch -- Lemon and lime -- Linden -- Locust -- Mahogany -- Mango -- Mangrove -- Maple -- Monkey-puzzle -- Mulberry -- Myrrh -- Neem -- Nutmeg -- Oak -- Olive -- Orange -- Osage orange -- Papaw -- Paulownia -- Peach -- Pear -- Persimmon -- Pine -- Pomegranate -- Poplar -- Quince -- Redbud -- Redwood -- Rowan -- Rubber -- Saguaro -- Sandalwood -- Sassafras -- Spruce -- Stewartia -- Strawberry tree -- Sumac -- Sweetgum -- Sycamore -- Tamarisk -- Tea -- Tree of heaven -- Tulip tree -- Tupelo -- Walnut -- Welwitschia -- Willow -- Wollemi pine (and others) -- Yew.This work is an "uncommon history" of trees. Alphabetical entries cover tree and leaf descriptions, their products, where the trees are located geographically, where they got their common names, people who described the trees or transported them and made them popular, and folklore and stories about the particular trees.

Subjects: Trees; Trees; Trees;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12

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Thirteen ways to smell a tree : a celebration of our connection with trees / by Haskell, David George,author.(CARDINAL)398304;

Includes bibliographical references.Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories. Thirteen essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees, from the smell of a book just printed as you first open its pages, to the calming scent of Linden blossom, to the ingredients of a particularly good gin & tonic: In your hand: a highball glass, beaded with cool moisture. In your nose: the aromatic embodiment of globalized trade. The spikey, herbal odour of European juniper berries. A tang of lime juice from a tree descended from wild progenitors in the foothills of the Himalayas. Bitter quinine, from the bark of the South American cinchona tree, spritzed into your nostrils by the pop of sparkling tonic water. Take a sip, feel the aroma and taste three continents converge. Each essay also contains a practice the reader is invited to experience. For example, taking a tree inventory of your own home, appreciating just how many things around us came from trees. And if you’ve ever hugged a tree when no one was looking, try breathing in the scents of different trees that live near you, the smell of pine after the rain, the refreshing, mind-clearing scent of a eucalyptus leaf crushed in your hand.

Subjects: Trees; Smell.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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A history of medicine in 50 objects / by Paul, Gill,1960-author.(CARDINAL)421896;

Includes bibiographical references (pages 218-219) and index.

Subjects: Medicine; Medical instruments and apparatus.; Medical supplies.; Material culture.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The plant hunter : a scientist's quest for nature's next medicines / by Quave, Cassandra Leah,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Nature: my leg and the wilderness -- welcome to the jungle -- worms in the belly -- an unexpected houseguest -- Part II: Infection -- wash and fold -- from the field to the lab -- babies and biofilms -- a lab of my own -- Part III: Medicine -- the sea cabbage -- Billy fell off the swing -- the one-legged hunter -- Cassandra's curse."A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now take for granted. Ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. What about life-saving medicines for malaria? Some of those are derived from cinchona and wormwood. In today's world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, scientists and laypeople alike have lost this connection to the natural world. But by ignoring the potential of medicinal plants, we are losing out on the opportunity to discover new life-saving medicines needed in the fight against the greatest medical challenge of this century: the rise of the post-antibiotic era. Antibiotic-resistant microbes plague us all. Each year, 700,000 people die due to these untreatable infections; by 2050, 10 million annual deaths are expected unless we act now. No one understands this better than Dr. Cassandra Quave, whose groundbreaking research as a leading medical ethnobotanist--someone who identifies and studies plants that may be able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other threatening illnesses--is helping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicines. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey. Traveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, she has conducted field research in the flooded forests of the remote Amazon, the murky swamps of southern Florida, the rolling hills of central Italy, isolated mountaintops in Albania and Kosovo, and volcanic isles arising out of the Mediterranean-all in search of natural compounds, long-known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. And as a person born with multiple congenital defects of her skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. Filled with grit, tragedy, triumph, awe, and scientific discovery, her story illuminates how the path forward for medical discovery may be found in nature's oldest remedies"--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Quave, Cassandra Leah.; Medical botanists; People with disabilities; Medicinal plants.; Ethnobotany.;

Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 23

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