A description of the genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered. To which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the Society of natural history at Copenhagen. Also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyænanche: or hyæna poison.

  • Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A description of the genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered. To which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the Society of natural history at Copenhagen. Also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyænanche: or hyæna poison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4° ] ing inhabitants being feized with a violent paroxyfm of fever, and finding no other water to quench his third:, was forced to drink of this; by which he was perfectly cured. He afterwards related the circumftance to others, and prevailed upon fome of his friends who were ill of fevers to make ufe of the fame remedy; with whom it proved equally fuccefsful*. The ufe of this excellent medicine, however, was very little known till about the year 1638; when afignal cure having been performed by it on the Spanifh viceroy’s lady, the Countefs del Cinchon, at Lima, it came into general ufe, and hence was diftin- guifhed by the appellation Pulvis Comitiflae, or the Coun- tefs’s Powder ; alfo called, Cortex china china, or chinchi- lla ; kina kina, or kinkina; and quina quina, or quinqui- na. On the recovery of the Countefs fhe diftributed a large quantity of the Bark to the Jefuits, in whofe hands it acquired ftill greater reputation, and by them it was firfi: introduced into Europe f, and hence called Cortex, or Pulvis jefuiticus, Pulvis Patrum; and alfo Cardinal de Lugo’s Powder, becaufe that charitable prelate bought a large quantity of it at a great expence for the ufe of the religious poor of Rome. “ This Bark is brought to us in pieces of different fizes, fome rolled up into fhort thick quills, and others fiat: the outfide is brownifh, and generally covered in part with a * Mat. Med. Traite, p. 78. f Louis the Fourteenth, when Dauphin, was faid to be one of the firft in Europe who experienced its efficacy. whitifii