Title

Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890. Malaria is caused a parasitic protozoa transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. Until the 1930s the only effective treatment was the drug Quinine, an alkaloid obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree, native of South America. It is also called Peruvian bark for its country of origin, or Jesuits' bark as it was brought to Europe by Spanish missionary priests. From Les Grands Maux et les Grands Remedes (The Principal Illnesses and Their Remedies) by Jules Rengade. (Paris, c1890).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_019

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,0Mb) / 11,3in x 17,2in / 3379 x 5169 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men health medicine country French France body science guy color colour patient enlarged illness location century sickness sick ill symptoms disease cross-section spleen Internal Organ 19th century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive malaria the body engraving Unknown Jules Jules Rengade Rengade Jules Rengade engraving