Bibliographical Bulletin


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Review of Literature on Cinchona Diseases, Injuries, and Fungi


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"Cinchona, the natural source of quinine, is a native tree of the slopes of the Andes. ... To meet the wartime needs of the Allied armed forces and the future needs of the civilian populations, the United States and other countries in the Western hemisphere cooperated in developing the cinchona industry in this hemisphere. ... This publication has been prepared in an effort to bring together the world literature on the diseases of cinchona."-- p. 1-2.










Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940


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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.