Stories
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
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The febrifuge properties of the cinchona alkaloids: cinchonia, quinidia and cinchonidia / by Joseph Dougall.
Dougall, Joseph.Date: 1873- Books
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The action of the cinchona and certain other alkaloids in bird malaria / by J.A. Goodson, T.A. Henry, and J.W.S. MacFie.
Goodson, John Augustus.Date: [1930]- Books
Studies in malaria, with special reference to treatment. Part XI, The cinchona alkaloids in the treatment of benign tertian malaria / by J.A. Sinton and W. Bird.
Sinton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1884-1956.Date: 1929- Books
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Essai sur les préparations pharmaceutiques du quinquina / [Théodore Destouches].
Destouches, Théodore.Date: [1864]- Books
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On the cheaper alkaloids of the cinchonas.
Smith, Daniel B., 1792-1883.Date: [1855]