Quite some time ago on this blog, I crowed about a purchase I’d made on ebay. I’d bought some cinchona powder and some quinine. These medicines were used in the olden days to treat malaria. The bottles came from an… Read More
As part of my research for my new book about insects, I’ve been reading a lot about malaria prophylaxis (that is, preventing malaria). For centuries, cinchona powder was the only known successful treatment for malaria. It was made from the… Read More
Serialized radio dramas became popular in the 1930s. They were called soap operas, because they were sponsored by makers of cleaning products, among them P and G’s Oxydol, Palmolive Beauty Soap, and Colgate Tooth Powder.