This is a wonderfully readable, nearly novel-like but masterfully scholarly all-encompassing history of malaria, a disease that still kills 2 to 3 million people every year, with unprecedented documentation of its impact on human events. The book contains more than 250 rare illustrations from obscure sources as well as a bibliography and names and dates section plus index. No other work ever attempted matches this volume's stunning scope and depth of coverage of malaria as one the great scourges of mankind responsible for defeating conquering armies, altering the fate of besieged cities, devastating the Papal conclaves, barring progress and civilization in Victorian times, and blamed by some historians for the decline of Greek civilization, the fall of the Roman Empire, and hindering the colonization of Africa. A unique and special work for the legion of medical and general readers fascinated by the evolution of science and medicine over the centuries.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Primary-care physicians; public health physicians; tropical disease specialists; parasitologists; medical historians; general readers and students; medical and general bookstores; medical and general libraries.
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978-1-85070-068-5 (9781850700685)
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Preface. Foreword, Acknowledgments, Introduction and general considerations: Malaria parasite lifecycle. Clinical manifestations. Pathology and pathogenesis. General history of malaria: Malaria in the ancient world. Malaria in the pre-Columbian America. Illustrations. From swamp fever to the malaria parasite: Malaria: the name and its origin. Melanemia. Animacular theory: Contagium vivum. The cause of malaria: the malarial parasite. The transmission of malaria: The precursors. The mosquito vector. The role of the mosquito in the transmission of malaria. The controversy: a matter of priority. Illustrations. Treatment of malaria: Treatment of malaria before the Peruvian bark and quinine. Pre-Columbian uses of cinchona bark. The Spanish and European traditions. The use of cinchona bark and quinine in North America. The cinchona tree. The cultivation of the cinchona tree. Quinine. Synthetic anti-malarials. Illustrations. Malaria prevention: Protection against mosquitoes. Cinchona bark and quinine prophylaxis. The unsolved problems of malaria prevention. Illustrations. The impact of malaria. Bibliography. Names and dates. Index.
