Quinine is an antiparasitic medicine, used for the treatment of malaria. It may also be used to treat and prevent nighttime leg cramps. It works by killing the malaria causing parasite and stops ...

Because a Spaniard in Peru discovered just 300 years ago that crude quinine cured malaria, most devastating of diseases the world over,** a small group of learned botanists and pharmacologists met ...

If you have nocturnal (nighttime) leg cramps, your doctor might prescribe quinine (Qualaquin)-even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved it for only one purpose: to treat ...

Quinine was initially very expensive ... and should appeal to a wide audience interested in the history of medicine, exploration or international health.

In Malarial Subjects, the postcolonial history of medicine comes face to face with posthuman science studies, and a wonderfully illuminating interchange ensues, evoking entanglements of humans, ...

Accidents in medicine: The idea sends chills down your ... The bark is then sundried and pulverized to make the drug quinine. The story behind the chance discovery of the anti-malarial drug ...