Cover of Le Vie d'Italia magazine from 1924. (Cover Story).Provided courtesy of Dr. Guido Sabatinelli. Le Vie d'Italia was established near the end of the 19th century in Milan as the monthly magazine of the Touring Club of Italy. Some 30 years later, in the 1920s, the magazine took on the additional role of Bulletin of the (then informal) National Organization for Tourism in Rome. Today, the magazine, which has been very popular, is still published by the Touring Club of Italy under the name Qui Touring. The issue of Le Vie d'Italia featured on this cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases An emerging infectious disease (EID) is an infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the past 20 years and threatens to increase in the near future. EIDs include diseases caused by a newly identified microorganism or newly identified strain of a known microorganism (e.g. is from August 1924 (Year XXX, No.8, circulation 150,000). The Italian text reads, "Monthly Magazine of the Touring Club of Italy, Milano, 10 Corso Italia-Roads of Italy, Official Bulletin of the National Body of Tourist Enterprises." In the center of this Le Vie d'Italia cover, under the image of the mosquito looming over the water, the inscription reads, "From the painting by E. Serra, Evening in the Pontine Marshes Pontine Marshes (pŏn`tēn, –tīn), Ital. Pontina, low-lying region, c.300 sq mi (780 sq km), in S Latium, central Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennine foothills; it is crossed by drainage canals. ." The Pontine marshes, 50 Km south of Rome, were at that time the most malarious area of continental Italy-today the area is one of the most fertile plains in the country. In the lower part of the cover, the Italian text reads, "Esanofele tablets, Esanofelina syrup for children, against malaria fever." Esanofele was produced by the F. Bisleri Company, which also produced a famous liqueur liqueur (lĭkûr`), strong alcoholic beverage made of almost neutral spirits, flavored with herb mixtures, fruits, or other materials, and usually sweetened. The name derives from the Latin word to melt. , Ferrochina Bisleri, probably an alcohol infusion of cinchona bark cinchona bark dried bark of the stem or root of various South American trees of the genus Cinchona. It is the source of quinine, cinchonine and cinchonidine. Used as a bitter and antipyretic. , herbs, and iron salts. In 1924, quinine quinine (kwī`nīn', kwĭnēn`), white crystalline alkaloid with a bitter taste. Before the development of more effective synthetic drugs such as quinacrine, chloroquine, and primaquine, quinine was the specific agent in the treatment of was produced only under a state monopoly, so Esanofele was probably also an herbal preparation with perhaps some antimalarial antimalarial /an·ti·ma·lar·i·al/ (-mah-lar´e-al) therapeutically effective against malaria, or an agent with this quality. an·ti·ma·lar·i·al adj. Preventing or relieving the symptoms of malaria. activity due to the cinchona bark. Roberto Romi Laboratorio di Parassitologia Istituto Superiore di Sanita Rome, Italy |
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