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Volume 32, Number 7—July 2026
Historical Review
Discovery of Cinchona as Antimalarial, Viceroyalty of Peru, Circa 1630
Figure 4

Figure 4. Chronologic and historical milestones of the Cinchona bark (also known as cascarilla or Loja’s powder).
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