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20 novembre 2013
- doi: 10.58079/tcov
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Elaine Leong, « Conference announcement: Trading Medicines », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tcov
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Known as a seron in its native Peru, South America, this rawhide bag was used to store and carry cinchona bark. For centuries, local people had chewed or ground up the bark as a treatment for fevers and malaria. As the European powers began to expand both their trade routes and empires, cinchona became a highly important commodity. In the early 1800s, quinine, the primary anti-malarial component of cinchona, was first isolated, allowing the production of more effective drugs to combat the di...