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Volume 32, Number 7—July 2026

Historical Review

Discovery of Cinchona as Antimalarial, Viceroyalty of Peru, Circa 1630

Jesús Rojas-JaimesComments to Author , Stephanie Rodríguez-Gómez, and Guido P. Lombardi
Author affiliation: Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru (J. Rojas-Jaimes); Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima (J. Rojas-Jaimes); Universidad Continental Postgraduate School, Lima (J. Rojas-Jaimes); Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima (S. Rodríguez-Gómez); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima (G.P. Lombardi)

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Figure 1

Loja, Peru, and the reserved Vilcabamba mountains where Cinchona trees grow, highlighting trade routes during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Source: General Archive of the Indies, Seville, Spain, 1773. Courtesy of José Carlos Arias.

Figure 1. Loja, Peru, and the reserved Vilcabamba mountains where Cinchona trees grow, highlighting trade routes during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Source: General Archive of the Indies, Seville, Spain, 1773. Courtesy of José Carlos Arias.

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