“A very secure recipe for the cure of all kinds of tertian and quartan fevers”: Medicine and Malaria in Late-Colonial Lima
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19 juin 2014
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Cane sugar Natural science Sciences Science of science Sweet oranges Orange Citrus sinensis Common oranges Orange tree Clinical sciences Medical profession Ague Chills and fever Intermittent fever Malarial fever Boil Borrowing Peruvian bark Chinchona bark Quinquina Jesuits' bark Calisaya bark albarelleCiter ce document
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Albarello drug jar used for cinchona bark, Spain, 1731-1770. Image Credit: L0057419 Science Museum, London © Wellcome Images Stefanie Gänger “Squeeze a serving of bitter oranges”, advised “The True Physician” (El Médico Verdadero), a manuscript recipe collection dated Lima 1771, “strain the juice through a canvas” and “blend that in a clean glazed pot with the same amount of pure water and with four ounces of white sugar”. “Bring that to a boil over the fire, then remove the (…) foam with a...