Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
Bolivian bark , under bark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the
Cinchona Calisaya , and other closely related species.
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On March 24th., the Westphalians crossed the Elbe, von Borcke (it is a common error in American literature to spell the predicate of nobility _von_ with a capital V when at the beginning of a period, while neither von nor the corresponding French de as predicate of nobility should ever be spelled with a capital) at that time suffered from intermittent fever, but was cured by the use of calisaya bark.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877
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