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Jesuit's bark   /dʒˈɛʒuɪtz bɑrk/   Listen
Jesuit's bark

noun
1.
Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine.  Synonyms: cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark.






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"Jesuit's bark" Quotes from Famous Books



... matter of fable and conjecture. The name cinchona is derived from that of the wife of a viceroy of Peru, who is said to have taken the drug from South America to Europe in 1639. Afterwards the Jesuits used it; hence it is sometimes called Jesuit's bark. It was brought most particularly into notice when Louis XIV of France purchased of Sir R. Talbor, an Englishman, his heretofore secret remedy for intermittent fever, ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders



Words linked to "Jesuit's bark" :   chinchona, bark



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