One of them was quinine. It is contained in tonic water, which made gin and tonic so refreshing to those in colonial Africa. Before the isolation of quinine, powdered Peruvian Bark, isolated from Cinchona trees, was used to treat patients with malaria. Quinine was isolated from the bark in 1817, and a synthetic form is now used. In the mid 1700s, willow bark was noted to have an effect against malaria. While willow bark did not cure the disease, it reduced the fever, pain, and fatigue of patients with malaria. The active compound in the bark was salicin, a compound that is related to aspirin.
people just died then, there was no treatment
In 1849, no one had developed a cure or medications for malaria. Any one who was infected were treated by using herbs.
Answer: chloroquinine
lonelyunicorn298
No
It has been used to treat malaria (sometimes called "ague" in history), but isn't always effective for it nowadays. (The strains mutate and evolve quickly.)
Quinidine is usually used to treat malaria.
The equtorial forest have trees which produce "QUANINE" used to treat malaria
An artesunate is a drug, belonging to the artemisinin group, used to treat malaria.
My understanding is that quinine is used to treat malaria...I've never heard of it being used to treat ADD or ADHD.
Quinine
a drug that can be used to prevent or treat the symptoms of malaria. There are two basic types of antimalarial drug: prophylactic drugs, and therapy drugs. Prophylatic drugs prevent a person from contracting malaria so by receiving a bite by an infective mosquito, a person will not contract malaria. Therapy drugs are used to treat a person who alrady has malaria. These drugs treat the symptoms of malaria. a drug that can be used to prevent or treat the symptoms of malaria. There are two basic types of antimalarial drug: prophylactic drugs, and therapy drugs. Prophylatic drugs prevent a person from contracting malaria so by receiving a bite by an infective mosquito, a person will not contract malaria. Therapy drugs are used to treat a person who alrady has malaria. These drugs treat the symptoms of malaria.
Malaria parasites become resistant to drugs used to treat them. Also the mosquitoes which carry the parasites also become resistant to insecticide drugs which are used to kill them. This process is occurring in malaria hotspots worldwide.
yes
Quinine is a drug used to treat malaria. It is neither a stimulant nor a depressant.
You can live for a few weeks if your malaria is not treated, If you know about your malaria and treat it well, you may not die with the disease!