The cinchona barks : pharmacognostically considered / by Friedrich A. Flückiger ; translated from the original text, with some additional notes, by Frederick B. Power.

  • Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August), 1828-1894.
Date:
1884
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    On the uth of August, 1621, Ana de Osorio, widow of Don Luis de Velasco, married Don Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Ca- brera y Bobadilla, of Madrid, the fourth Count of Chinchon. The year 1628 brought to the Count the highest distinction that was at- tainable in Spain—he was appointed Viceroy of Peru, 1. e., regent of the entire Spanish territory in South America. On the I4th of January, 1629, the vice-regal pair entered Lima.1 As the Count- ess, in 1638, was prostrated by a fever in the palace at Lima, the same corregidor of Loxa sent Cinchona bark to the vice-regal physician, Dr. Juan de Vega. In the treatment of the Countess Chinchon the virtues of the remedy were also confirmed, so that she caused it to be distributed in Lima.2 Even here the powdered bark acquired the name of Polvo de la Condesa (Countess Powder). A knowledge of this febrifuge must have very soon penetrated into Spain, even if it may be doubted that this took place as early as the year 1632, before the eure of the Countess, as has been stated by Villerobel.3 In 1639 Cinchona bark certainly appears to have been used in Alcala de Henares, near Madrid.4 Perhaps, also, with relation to the first Jesuit treated therewith at Malacatos, the bark soon received the name of Polvo de les Jesuitos, as this Order, especially through the Cardinal connected therewith, Juan de Lugo, residing at Rome, began to zealously adopt the new remedy.5 As Nicolas Lemery declared, the Jesuits derived great profit therefrom. In the meantime, however, the same physician, Juan de Vega, on the occasion of the return of the viceroy to Spain, had, as early as 1640, likewise taken Cinchona with him, and, e. g. sold the same in Seville at 100 reals (about 100 dollars) per pouncl. The Cardinal de Lugo, Attorney-General of the Order of Jesuits, had, as it appears, the superintendence of a pharmacy belonging to them, but permitted, however, also in his palace the distribution of cinchona bark to the indigent sick, which, therefore, became known as “Pulvis eminentissimi Cardinalis de Lugo,” or “Pulvis 1 With regard to the Count Chinchon, who conducted the Government of Peru until the 17m of December, 1639, compare also Flückiger’s Pharmakognosie, p. 85. 2 With relation to the earliest history of the cinchona barks, compare further the publi- cations of H von Bergen, Weddell and Markham, which are mentioned by name in bection 18 of this work. J 3 H. von Bergen, 84, 90. i4Sfofian0 Bad°' Anastasis> Corticis Peruvia, seu China China defensio. Genoa, born^n'fcR^l’AiCAUniverselle, Paris, 1821, Juan de Lugo was in 1 J , adriü’ entered Order of the Jesuits in 1603, was made a Cardinal MemltnrFhf^ r ?-0m7e. ln..l6do- AJS0 the same, according to Lorenzo Cardeila, Mem. stonche de Cardmali della Santa Romana Chiesa VII. (Roma, 1797) 47