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  • 2 - The Demands of Humanity

  • Stefanie Gänger, Universität Heidelberg
  • Book:
    A Singular Remedy
    Published online:
    02 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 54-90
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    Chapter 2 studies the movement of various material forms of medical knowledge about cinchona – bottled compound wines, or powdered bark – by setting out the structure, volume and reach of world commerce in cinchona. Based on trade statistics, pharmaceutical inventories and medical treatises as well as the extensive Spanish administrative record on the subject, the chapter charts the bark’s availability across the Atlantic World by means of commerce and contraband as well as concomitant, non-commercial forms of distribution – charitable giving, medical relief programmes and diplomatic gift exchange. Preparing the ground for subsequent chapters concerned with the movement of consumption practices and expertise in indications, it exposes and examines both the bark’s geographic reach, along the veins of Atlantic trade, proselytizing, and imperialism, and its more elusive social reach within consumer societies.