Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine.
Bark from trees of the genus Cinchona.
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Examples for "cinchona"
Examples for "cinchona"
1The success attendant upon the growth of a substitute for cinchona is significant.
2The mode adopted by the bark-peelers of obtaining cinchona varies somewhat in different districts.
3They are at the foot of the cinchona over there.
4But the cinchona tree once glowing abundantly, quinine would of course become infinitely cheaper.
5But it is half-past five, and I must go and take my cinchona bark.
1But it is half-past five, and I must go and take my cinchona bark.
2This was the introduction of cinchona bark (from which quinine is obtained) in 1640.
3The genus Exostemma yields various kinds of false cinchona bark, which do not contain the cinchona alkalies.
4Men go git cinchona bark now.
5The imports of cinchona bark to this country are from 225,000 to 556,000 lbs.
1Evidently the best ingredient in the bitters was the solvent, not the Peruvian bark.
2This is the celebrated Peruvian bark, to which the name of chinchona has been given.
3They do not go to Peru on a Peruvian bark, but on an English steamer.
4Under the last head fall tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, Peruvian bark and other drugs.
5Still more recently, quinia taking the place of Peruvian bark, the old plan of administering large doses has been resumed.
1We ought to be furnished yearly with at least half a hundredweight of Jesuit's bark.
2As soon as he heard the name swamp fever, Rolf remembered that, in Redding, Jesuit's bark (known later as quinine) was the sovereign remedy.
3Overcome 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."
4Its early name, " Jesuit's Bark," showed one step of her process.
5This is my own mixture: Jesuit's Bark, limonum, and opium, made more firm by a base of oxymel.
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