cinchona bark

Last, I hope you have been able to prove, one way or another, the value of cinchona bark.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

He put them in his pocket, with the small sack which contained the remains of the cinchona bark.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

Without any reference to the greater or less force of medical theories as to the efficacy of cinchona bark, I now only take an experienced and practical view, well knowing that the sufferings of many millions of poor and rich natives, especially in the jungle districts, are yearly very great, and the mortality quite enormous from remittent and intermittent fevers, by far the greater part of which would be immensely relieved, or wholly cured, by the free use of cinchona bark.

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