The outer layer of the woody parts of plants.
    

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Cascarilla bark plant (Croton eluteria): flowering stem, bark and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1844, after P. Turpin.

Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.

De cortice salicis cortici peruviano substituendo : disputatio posterior ... / defendet Justus Gulielmus Günz.

O znachenii gor'kikh sredstv v pishchevarenii i usvoenii azotistykh veshchestv : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / M. Chel'tsova.

Notice of the copalchi-bark : a new and valuable bitter analogous to the cascarilla / by James Stark.

Comparative anatomy of the barks of the Salicaceae. Pt. I / by Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès.

Farther observations upon the effects of camphire and calomel : Upon the effects of calomel in the dropsy. Upon Bath waters. And upon the epilepsy. Being an appendix to essays upon these subjects, formerly published. To which is added a letter to Dr. Adee, upon the effects of a decoction of the elm bark in cutaneous eruptions / By Daniel Lysons.

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De cortice salicis cortici peruviano substituendo : disputatio posterior ... / defendet Justus Gulielmus Günz.

O znachenii gor'kikh sredstv v pishchevarenii i usvoenii azotistykh veshchestv : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / M. Chel'tsova.

Notice of the copalchi-bark : a new and valuable bitter analogous to the cascarilla / by James Stark.

Comparative anatomy of the barks of the Salicaceae. Pt. I / by Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès.