The Application of Therapeutic Quinine in Iran History

Diseases have been a major concern in human history and in human societies throughout history. On this basis, people always resort to scientific and sometimes inefficient methods to relieve their illness and to relieve pain and heal the suffering. Based on the importance of one of the most important diseases, such as fever, which during thousands of years in Iran and non-Iran was one of the major diseases and was among the most endemic diseases, which sometimes caused death.

The present study seeks to investigate the effect of one of the most important imported and non-indigenous drugs in the treatment of this disease, and by describing the history and nature of the drug, known as "Quinine", the prevalence and methods of using its understanding during the Qajar period.

Hence, by studying the historical Qajar books and domestic and foreign travel logbooks, with a descriptive-analytical approach the results are as follows; although the Iranians used certain drugs to relieve a variety of fever; However, with the introduction of Quinine at the end of the 12th century and its efficacy in fixing chronic fever (ague), the drug was particularly welcomed by the people And used by Iranian and foreign physicians and general population in the form of rubbing, edible and injectable.