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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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Seeds of change : five plants that transformed mankind / by Hobhouse, Henry.(CARDINAL)185523;
Bibliography: pages 233-237.
Subjects: Crops; Plants and history.; Quinine;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Seeds of change : five plants that transformed mankind / by Hobhouse, Henry.(CARDINAL)185523;
Bibliography: pages 233-237.Quinine. Quinine and the white man's burden -- Sugar. Sugar and the slave trade -- Tea. Tea and the destruction of China -- Cotton. Cotton and the American South -- The potato. The potato, Ireland, and the United States.
Subjects: Plants and history.; Crops;
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The Bedlam stacks / by Pulley, Natasha,author.(CARDINAL)345314;
In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. On the sprawling, crumbling grounds of the old house, something is wrong; a statue moves, his grandfather's pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape everything at home, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon where a salt line on the ground separates town from forest. Anyone who crosses is killed by something that watches from the trees, but somewhere beyond the salt are the quinine woods, and the way around is blocked. Surrounded by local stories of lost time, cursed woods, and living rock, Merrick must separate truth from fairytale and find out what befell the last expeditions; why the villagers are forbidden to go into the forest; and what is happening to Raphael, the young priest who seems to have known Merrick's grandfather, who visited Peru many decades before.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; East India Company; Smugglers; Priests; Trees; Quinine;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 20
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The bedlam stacks [large print] / by Pulley, Natasha,author.(CARDINAL)345314;
In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. On the sprawling, crumbling grounds of the old house, something is wrong; a statue moves, his grandfather's pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape everything at home, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon where a salt line on the ground separates town from forest. Anyone who crosses is killed by something that watches from the trees, but somewhere beyond the salt are the quinine woods, and the way around is blocked. Surrounded by local stories of lost time, cursed woods, and living rock, Merrick must separate truth from fairytale and find out what befell the last expeditions; why the villagers are forbidden to go into the forest; and what is happening to Raphael, the young priest who seems to have known Merrick's grandfather, who visited Peru many decades before.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Large print books.; East India Company; Priests; Quinine; Smugglers; Trees;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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North to Texas [large print] / by Loomis, Noel M.,1905-1969,author.(CARDINAL)197012;
The south needed Texas for men and supplies to carry on the war, but in Texas, another war was raging -- and that one was between the secessionists and the sympathizers. Roy Talley was a rancher, and he wasn't looking for a fight. But two of his brothers had been among the Union sympathizers who had been killed in the bloody Nueces Massacre. Now Talley saw his chance to avenge the murders of his brothers. With malaria raging through the camps, the South needed quinine more than it needed anything else. And Talley meant to bargain smuggled quinine for a fortune in gold.
Subjects: Large print books.; Western fiction.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States / by Humphreys, Margaret,1955-(CARDINAL)314719;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index.1. The Pestilence That Stalks in Darkness -- 2. The Mist Rises: Malaria in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Race, Poverty, and Place -- 4. Making Malaria Control Profitable -- 5. "A Ditch in Time Saves Quinine?" -- 6. Popular Perceptions of Health, Disease, and Malaria -- 7. Denouement."Margaret Humphreys approaches malaria from three perspectives: the parasite's biological history, the medical response to it, and the patient's experience of the disease. She asks how the parasite thrives and eventually becomes vulnerable, how professionals came to know about the parasite and learned how to fight it, and how people viewed the disease and came to understand and support the struggle against it." "[She] argues that malaria control was central to the evolution of local and federal intervention in public health and demonstrates the complex interaction among poverty, race, and geography in determining the fate of malaria."--Jacket.
Subjects: Malaria;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The signature of all things / [sound recording] by Gilbert, Elizabeth.; Stevenson, Juliet nrt.;
Read by Juliet Stevenson.Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittake, a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind).
Subjects: Historical fiction; Enlightenment; Industrial revolution; Painters; Women botanistsvFiction.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 16
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50 plants that changed the world / by Harris, Stephen,1966-author.(CARDINAL)469376;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The plants. Barley ; Mandrake ; Beets ; Opium poppy ; Brassicas ; Cannabis ; Bread wheat ; Broad bean ; Alliums ; Pea ; Olive ; Grape ; Papyrus ; Yew ; Rose ; Pines ; Reeds ; Oak ; Apple ; Pepper ; Carrot ; Woad ; Citrus ; Nutmeg ; White mulberry ; Tobacco ; Tulip ; Chilli ; Quinine ; Cocoa ; Potato ; Tomato ; Coffee ; Maize ; Pineapple ; Smooth meadow grass ; Lycopods ; Cotton ; Sugar cane ; Coconut ; Rice ; Tea ; Ragwort ; Banana ; Rubber ; Sunflower ; Oil palm ; Soya ; Corncockle ; Thale cress.Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle - or perhaps the soya - that produced the milk, plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Beginning with some of the earliest uses of plants, Stephen Harris takes us on an exciting journey through history, identifying fifty plants that have been key to the development of the western world, discussing trade, imperialism, politics, medicine, travel and chemistry along the way. There are plants here that have changed landscapes, fomented wars and fuelled slavery. Others have been the trigger for technological advances, expanded medical knowledge or simply made our lives more pleasant. Plants have provided paper and ink, chemicals that could kill or cure, vital sustenance and stimulants. Some, such as barley, have been staples from earliest times; others, such as oil palm, are newcomers to western industry. We remain dependent on plants for our food, our fuel and our medicines. As the wide-ranging and engaging stories in this beautifully illustrated book demonstrate, their effects on our lives continue to be profound and often unpredictable.
Subjects: Plants, Useful; Plants and civilization; Plants and history.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 7
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Civil War pharmacy : a history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy / by Flannery, Michael A.,1953-(CARDINAL)279885;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index.Civil War pharmacy and medicine : comparisons and contexts -- The state of pharmacy in America, 1861 -- Angels of mercy : women and Civil War pharmacy -- The principals : medical purveyors and hospital stewards -- The supplies : drug distribution and manufacturing -- The medicines : a military materia medica and therapeutics -- The remedies of choice : calomel and quinine -- Administration -- Fighting more with less --The materia medica.Fighting more with less: an appraisal -- The materia medica -- Prescribing and dispensing in camp, hospital, and home -- Wartime shortages take their toll.
Subjects: Pharmacy; Medicine, Military;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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