Medicines Originated From Plants – Quinine and Artemether for Malaria
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Prologue – Malaria Malaria is the product of the plasmodium parasite, carried by several species of Anopheles mosquitoes, which spreads when they sting their hosts.2 Once entered the human body via saliva from mosquito bites, the plasmodium parasites will invade the liver. P. falciparum, predominantly found in Africa, is the most lethal of all strains….
Of the Origin of Flu, Poxes and Other Pandemics that Haunted Us (Part 1) – Ancient Diseases
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Source: #19212 [https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=19212] by CDC. Public Domain. A man with leprosy lesions on the ear. Edited by Carl Ivan Nimmo. Before modern medicine, the Old World was seething with diseases that could not be effectively treated as medicinal knowledge and techniques had not advanced sufficiently to treat these ailments. In these times, doctors...
