Quinine: The Jesuits discovered it. The Protestants feared it. The
British vied with the Dutch for it, and the Nazis seized it.
Because of quinine, medicine, warfare, and exploration were changed
forever.
For more than one thousand years, there was no cure for malaria.
In 1623, after ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died
in Rome while electing Urban VII the new pope, he announced that a
cure must be found. He encouraged Jesuit priests establishing new
missions in Asia and in South America to learn everything they
could about how the local people treated the disease, and in 1631,
an apothecarist in Peru named Agostino Salumbrino dispatched a new
miracle to Rome. The cure was quinine, an alkaloid made from the
bitter red bark of the cinchona tree.
From the quest of the Englishmen who smuggled cinchona seeds out
of South America to the way in which quinine opened the door to
Western imperial adventure in Asia, Africa, and beyond, and to
malaria's effects even today, award-winning author Fiammetta Rocco
deftly chronicles the story of this historically ravenous
disease.
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