The Shadows of Curare: Histories and Pre-Histories of Pharmaceutical Research in the Amazon

M O'Hara - History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - hopp.uwpress.org
In the 1930s and 1940s, US pharmaceutical companies sought potential drugs in the forests
and pharmacopoeia of the Amazon basin. A prominent example was the competition …

Forbidden Drugs of the Colonial Americas

M Nesvig - The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History, 2022 - books.google.com
The diversity of sociocultural uses of plant-drugs were richly illustrated during the colonial
period (1492–1810) of what is now Latin America. Though both North and South America …

Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant

P Gootenberg - 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
Imagine an Indigenous Amazonian stimulant plant, colonized, classified, and coveted by
Western medicine by the nineteenth century, added into an energizing secret-formula soda …

The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen

P Chakrabarti - Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
The Age of Intoxication traces the premodern history of drugs, a period when, author
Benjamin Breen argues, categories such as licit/illicit, modern/traditional, and …

[PDF][PDF] UNLOCKING THE" GREEN" PHARMACY

JL Swerdlow - Wilson Quarterly, 2000 - archive.wilsonquarterly.com
That advances in genome research should lead us back to plant-based medicine, which is
so often dismissed by scientists as primitive and of unprovable worth, may seem absurd. But …

Tropical transplantations: drugs, nature, and globalization in the Portuguese and British Empires, 1640-1755

BP Breen - 2015 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
Prior to the nineteenth century, the boundary between pharmaceuticals used in medicine
and recreational intoxicants was blurry. The term “drug”(droga in the Iberian languages) …

The “Controversial Cundurango Cure”: Medical professionalization and the global circulation of drugs

E Sevilla, A Sevilla - Science in Context, 2020 - cambridge.org
This article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial
medicinal bark from Ecuador–cundurango–that was actively sponsored by the Ecuadorian …

The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen

M Hokkanen - Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
Benjamin Breen's The Age of Intoxication provides a highly engaging and thoughtprovoking
account of the entangled histories of drugs, medicines, and poisons in the early modern …

[HTML][HTML] Pablo F. Gómez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic

CM Blakley - History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - hopp.uwpress.org
Cinchona bark, bezoar stones, coral, and emeralds were common materia medica
prescribed by apothecaries throughout the early modern Atlantic world. Rather than focus on …

[PDF][PDF] Farming technology in Amazonia

D McKey, S Rostain - Encyclopaedia of the History of Science …, 2015 - researchgate.net
This entry summarizes recent advances in our knowledge of the history of farming
technology in Amazonia. Although some reference is made to farming as it is practiced in …