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Peruvian bark
Peruvian bark
noun
- another name for cinchona
Word History and Origins
Origin of Peruvian bark1
Example Sentences
Britain prospected Peruvian bark trees and grew them in India, having first transplanted them to Kew, one of many botanical gardens that served as a center for medical and colonial botany.
The family doctor, David Hosack, employed an unorthodox treatment of hot baths of Peruvian bark and alcohol and saved the boy's life.
“They promised to send Peruvian bark. It may save her yet.”
Milk, the whites of eggs, strong tea, or tincture of Peruvian bark, should be given.
Their Peruvian bark, quinine, and calomel, immense quantities of which are used without any definite knowledge of their modus operandi, fail in a great majority of cases.
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