Dobson M J
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, UK.
Parassitologia. 1998 Jun;40(1-2):69-81.
This paper explores "a wonderful cure" for malaria used successfully by Robert Talbor, an apothecary's apprentice in the English marshes, to treat Essex smugglers and European Royalty in the seventeenth century. The basis of this cure is identified as "quinquina" from the bark of the South American Cinchona tree. The story of Robert Talbor and his secret remedy for malaria opens up a set of intriguing questions about the early history of "quinquina", the subsequent development of quinine, the use of higher plants for antimalarial drugs, including the Chinese plant Artemisia annua L., and the value of unlocking the secrets of the past in our search for strategies to control malaria.
本文探讨了17世纪英国沼泽地一位药剂师学徒罗伯特·塔尔博尔成功用于治疗埃塞克斯走私者和欧洲皇室成员疟疾的“神奇疗法”。这种疗法的基础被确定为来自南美洲金鸡纳树树皮的“金鸡纳皮”。罗伯特·塔尔博尔及其治疗疟疾的秘密疗法的故事引发了一系列有趣的问题，涉及“金鸡纳皮”的早期历史、奎宁的后续发展、高等植物用于抗疟药物（包括中国植物青蒿）以及在我们寻找控制疟疾策略的过程中解开过去秘密的价值。
