Format:
XV, 307 S. : Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. American ed.
ISBN:
0-374-15469-4
Content:
Relates the mission of three British explorers to find the cinchona tree, the source of a medicine that supposedly had cured a Spanish countess of malaria, in an account of geopolitical rivalry that pitted the New World against the Old.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Medicine
Keywords:
Malaria
;
Bekämpfung
;
Chinin
;
Geschichte
;
Malaria
;
Bekämpfung
;
Chinin
;
Malaria
;
Heilmittel