Quinine

Ototoxicity is the name for damage caused by medications. They are malaria (quinine and chloroquine) and salicylates like aspirin, although the hearing loss is mostly temporary. Certain industrial chemicals, such as solvents, are also believed to cause damage. Ways to avoid hearing loss through medications include ⦁ Discuss medications…

Plants use as food and in traditional medicine are more likely to yield pharmacologically active compounds. The medicinal properties of plants have been investigated in the recent scientific developments throughout the world, due to their potent therapeutic efficacy and antioxidant activities, no side effects and economic viability. Medicinal plants are serving as raw material for drugs which are effective and reasonable health care for people. However, all plants synthesize phytochemicals,…

Miranda, who knows a lot about Jamaican and Caribbean culture, explained the cultural connections. That salt fish was traditional Jamaican quinine and Miranda used her personal history to identify these cultural features. The line “ don’t throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all;” puzzled me. I had no idea what the writer meant about it might not be a blackbird…

Smoking Smoking is a practice that results in the smoke being absorbed by the body into the bloodstream that eventually reaches the human tissue. Smoking is very harmful, and almost affects every organ of the body. Smoking is responsible for lung cancer, among other types of cancers and health problems. Smoking was originally created in the early 5000BC. The main type and material for smoking is the cigarette, which contains tobacco. After that people developed another types of equipment and…

Benjamin Stephenson will continue to be an important part of the history of Edwardsville. He was born in Pennsylvania and then moved to West Virginia later on in his life. He married Lucy Swearington, daughter of an “Indian” landowner, and they had a daughter soon after. The young budding family moved from Kaskaskia to Edwardsville, with Major Stephenson working for Ft. Russel nearby. He originally served in the Illinois militia and moved up in rank. Once he moved to Edwardsville, he became an…

Imperialism builds an empire. Europe being a powerful nation expands onto less powerful nations to benefit their own colonial expansion. Looking at The Tools of Empire by Headrick and King Leopold’s Ghost by Hochschild; both are very informative of the interest about European imperialism in the nineteenth century, but are written very differently. Hochschild focuses on people in his text. There are very important characters in the text,such as Stanley, Leopold, William Sheppard, Morel, and etc…

ethnobotany and those teachings has made him learn about the medicinal plants. When he was eighteen years old, he went to University of Pennsylvania and its biology department and soon he found out that he did not have any interest in that field. Quinine was first discovered by South American Indians a thousand years ago. It is derived from the bark of the cinchona tree and it is used to treat…

five days he experienced high fever, asthenia, dizziness and myalgia. He was diagnosed with Plasmodium falciparum malaria with 8% parasitemia (with no severity criteria according to the WHO guidelines 1). He was successfully treated with endovenous quinine-doxycycline.…

of the play, it is a symbolism of friendship, family and love. It first appears is when they are in the sea and it represents the meaning to live by ‘tapping’ Sheila to keep her awake and afloat. Sheila gives the shoe horn up to the Japs to obtain quinine when Bridie is almost dying from a fever, the shoe horn plays the most important part in the play as it help with survival and built friendship. The shoe horn comes to represent the enduring nature of the women’s friendship and love. In home…

The republic of Cuba is an island nation in the northern Caribbean Sea where the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Just south of the U.S. State Florida, west of Haiti and North of Jamaica. Cuba is one of the world’s last remaining communist (socialist) countries, ruled under President Raul Castro the brother of the famed Fidel Castro who died in 2008. Cuba is considered part of Latin America and is a multiethnic country. Their customs are derived in roots from Spanish colonies,…