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Cinchona

noun
1.
Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine.  Synonyms: cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark.
2.
Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona.  Synonym: chinchona.



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"Cinchona" Quotes from Famous Books



... warm greasy water, or the stomach-tube may be used. Cinchona bark or any preparation containing tannin, as tea, decoction of oak bark, etc. Morphine to ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... two hours. Leaving El Tovar, the road plunges among the trees at once on passing the railway. Here are pines, pinions and junipers, with a sprinkling of scrub oaks, and the flowering bush with white flowers and long velvety tendrils locally known as the cinchona. Here and there a yucca baccata thrusts out its bayonets from the ground, as if in warning, and a score or more of flowers give variety of color to the greens of the trees, in ...
— The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James

... quieted; the mind attuned to silence; and observe how easily and regularly beats the heart! Your unenlightened doctor would see nothing in these sensations; and yet you yourself perceive they are a part of health.—Did you remember your cinchona this morning? Good. Cinchona also is a work of nature; it is, after all, only the bark of a tree which we might gather for ourselves if we lived in the locality.—What a world is this! Though a professed atheist, I delight to bear my testimony to the world. Look at the gratuitous remedies and ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the healing art have been done by those who never had a diploma the first Caesarian section, lithotomy, the use of cinchona, of ether as an anaesthetic, the treatment of the air passages by inhalation, the water cure and medicated baths, electricity as a healing agent, and magnetism, faith ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... mountain-bred and very sure-footed. The views were extremely grand, and the distances from peak to peak so immense that the mind was almost lost to detail. Much of the land is cleared of forest trees and covered with tea-plants: cinchona also is ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 • Various

... the coffee crop is still in an experimental condition, some of the planters are giving their attention to the cinchona, which thrives greatly at Ceylon, even flourishing at elevations where coffee naturally dies out. The seeds of the cinchona are planted in nurseries, and when six months old are transplanted into prepared fields, where they make rapid growth. ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1883 that the collection of cinchona barks was especially complete. It was comprised of specimens of nearly all the natural cinchona barks of South America and every known variety of the cultivated product from the British government plantations in India. In addition, there were specimens from Java, Ceylon, ...
— History of the Division of Medical Sciences • Sami Khalaf Hamarneh



Words linked to "Cinchona" :   tree, bark, genus Chinchona, calisaya, Cartagena bark



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