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Cinchona revolutionized the art of medicine as profoundly as gunpowder had the art of war. — Bernardino Ramazzini, Physician to the Duke of Modena, Opera omnia, medica, et physica, 1716In the summer of 1623, ten cardinal, The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for Quinine, the Cure That Changed the World
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| List of Illustrations | ||
| Maps: Early Eighteenth-Century South America | ||
| Maps: Central Africa | ||
| Maps: World Map of Malaria | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction: The Tree of Fevers | ||
| 1 | Sickness Prevails - Africa | 1 |
| 2 | The Tree Required - Rome | 25 |
| 3 | The Tree Discovered - Peru | 55 |
| 4 | The Quarrel - England | 84 |
| 5 | The Quest - South America | 108 |
| 6 | To War and to Explore - From Holland to West Africa | 139 |
| 7 | To Explore and to War - From America to Panama | 168 |
| 8 | The Seed - South America | 206 |
| 9 | The Science - India, England and Italy | 250 |
| 10 | The Last Forest - Congo | 281 |
| Notes on Sources | 315 | |
| Further Reading | 333 | |
| Index | 339 |
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