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Meanings of cinchona bark in English
Catalan
quina Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine.
Synonyms
Examples for "cinchona"
Examples for "cinchona"
1
The success attendant upon the growth of a substitute for cinchona is significant.
2
The mode adopted by the bark-peelers of obtaining cinchona varies somewhat in different districts.
3
They are at the foot of the cinchona over there.
4
But the cinchona tree once glowing abundantly, quinine would of course become infinitely cheaper.
5
But it is half-past five, and I must go and take my cinchona bark.
1
Evidently the best ingredient in the bitters was the solvent, not the Peruvian bark.
2
This is the celebrated Peruvian bark, to which the name of chinchona has been given.
3
They do not go to Peru on a Peruvian bark, but on an English steamer.
4
Under the last head fall tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, Peruvian bark and other drugs.
5
Still more recently, quinia taking the place of Peruvian bark, the old plan of administering large doses has been resumed.
1
We ought to be furnished yearly with at least half a hundredweight of Jesuit's bark.
2
As soon as he heard the name swamp fever, Rolf remembered that, in Redding, Jesuit's bark (known later as quinine) was the sovereign remedy.
3
Overcome by this evidence I bestow on the good fathers a double portion of gratitude, for they imported the Quinquina yet known as " Jesuit's bark."
4
Its early name, " Jesuit's Bark," showed one step of her process.
5
This is my own mixture: Jesuit's Bark, limonum, and opium, made more firm by a base of oxymel.
Usage of cinchona bark in English
1
But it is half-past five, and I must go and take my cinchona bark.
2
This was the introduction of cinchona bark (from which quinine is obtained) in 1640.
3
The genus Exostemma yields various kinds of false cinchona bark, which do not contain the cinchona alkalies.
4
Men go git cinchona bark now.
5
The imports of cinchona bark to this country are from 225,000 to 556,000 lbs.
6
There never yet has been a substitute found for cinchona bark and its salts, as an antiperiodic and tonic.
7
His first homeopathic remedy was Cinchona bark, which was suggested as a treatment for malaria.
8
It may be procured also from several other sources, such as oak, horse chestnut, sumach, and cinchona barks, catechu, kino, &c.