“Considering how best to spend their limited funds, the Italians had fallen back on intensive quinine therapy, a time-honored resource with a history of 300 years of continual defeat.” L.W. Hackett, “Once Upon a Time. Presidential Address,” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 9 (1960): 110-11.
On a fine day in April 1829, a group of French scientists, members of a scientific expedition exploring the Morea, were approaching the town of Filiatra, in the southwestern Peloponnese. To their great surprise, a band of musicians ...
Achan, J., A. Talisuna, A. Erhart, A. Yeka, J. Tibenderana, F. Baliraine, P. Rosenthal, and U. D’Alessandro. “Quinine, an Old Anti-Malarial Drug in a Modern World: Role in the Treatment of Malaria.” Malaria Journal 10, no. 1 (2011): 144. http://www.malariajournal.com/content/10/1/144
Malaria existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. By the nineteenth century, Greece was the most malarious country in Europe and the one most heavily infected with its lethal form,
