1792 LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816)
Quinología o Tratado del árbol de la quina ó cascarilla:con su descripción y la de otras especies de quinos nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú....
Ruiz, a Spanish pharmacist and botanist, was appointed director of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú, during which he traveled extensively through Chile and Peru along with botanists José Pavón and Joseph…
GMN 13323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15590
1799 AZEREDO, José Pinto de (1766 – 1810)
Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades d'Angola....
Azeredo noted that the tropical fevers found in Brazil and Angola were very similar. He claimed to have achieved excellent results with his “new method” of treatment, which included the use of quinine, nux vomica, ars…
GMN 9070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11249
1820 PELLETIER, Pierre Joseph (1788 – 1842); CAVENTOU, Joseph Bienaimé (1795 – 1877)
Recherches chimique sur les quinquinas.
Isolation of quinine.
GMN 5233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7879
1821 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859); LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816); LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842); LAUBERT, Jean Charles (1762 – 1834)
An illustration of the genus cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's Account of the Cinchona forests of South America, and Laubert's Memoir on the different species of quinquina: To which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ... And a short account of the spikenard of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15591
1884 –1886 BINZ, Karl (1832 – 1913)
Vorlesungen über Pharmakologie.
Includes his test for quinine in urine. English translation of second edition, 1895-97. Binz was Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn. His most important work was perhaps the demonstration that quinine in low concentrati…
GMN 1880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2512
1892 GOLGI, Camillo (1844 – 1926)
Azione della chinina sui parasite malarici e sui corrispondente accessi febbrili.
French translation in Arch. ital. Biol., 1892, 17, 456-71.
GMN 5243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7900
1914 WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864 – 1940)
Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.
Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate (pp. 173-75) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions of various forms …
GMN 2844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3605
1947 PAREDES BORJA, Virgilio (1858 – 1983)
La contribución del Ecuador a la material médica: La quina.
GMN 13496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15771
