The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World
by Fiammetta Rocco
Category: History

Traces the historical search for a cure for malaria, describing the seventeenth-century establishment of pharmacies throughout South America by Jesuit priests, the discover of quinine, the fierce battles that were fought to control and distribute quinine supplies, and the American synthesis of the medicine. 25,000 first printing.