The miraculous fever tree : malaria and the quest for a cure that changed the world / Fiammetta Rocco.
Rocco, Fiammetta.
2003
RA644.M2 R633 2003 (Mapit)
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Title The miraculous fever tree : malaria and the quest for a cure that changed the world / Fiammetta Rocco.
Author Rocco, Fiammetta.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0060199512 (alk. paper)
0002572028
Publication Details New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2003.
Language English
Description xix, 348 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number RA644.M2 R633 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.9/362/009
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-337) and index.
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Ch. 1. Sickness prevails - Africa
Ch. 2. The tree required - Rome
Ch. 3. The tree discovered - Peru
Ch. 4. The quarrel - England
Ch. 5. The quest - South America
Ch. 6. To war and to explore - from Holland to West Africa
Ch. 7. To explore and to war - From America to Panama
Ch. 8. The seed - South America
Ch. 9. The science - India, England and Italy
Ch. 10. The last forest - Congo.

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