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 "
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 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.
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.
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