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 The virtues of thegenus Cinchona arc to well defcribed 

 in Dr. Woodvilk.-'» excellent publication, in tilled Medkal 

 Boiarij, that we have taken the Hbcily to copythc Doe- 

 tor's account with fcarcc any material alteration. It i> 

 as follows, viz. 



WE fecm m have no latisfactory account at what time, 

 01 by what mans, the merSebnl efficacy of the Peru- 

 vian Bark, which is now fo well cftabliflied, was firrt dif- 

 covcred. Some contend that its oft in intermittent (even 

 was known to the Americans long before the Spaniards 

 poueued Peru, but tliat they concealed this knowledge 

 from the Europeans ; ami, on the contrary, it is afTcried 

 by mliei>. tlm ibc Peruviana never fuppofed it to be fit 

 for any medicinal nfc, but thought that the large quanti- 

 ties exported thence were for the purpofc of dyeing, and 

 they actually made Ibmc trials of its effects in this way ». 

 Condomine fays, that according to an ancient tradition, 

 the Americans owe the difcovcry of this remedy to the 

 lions, whiih fomc natutalills pretend arc lubject. to a 

 kind of intermitting fever, of which they were obferved 

 to be cured by inllmclivcly eating the But; »f the Cin- 

 chona. But GcoflVuy ftates, that the ufc of the Bark was 

 firil learned from the following circumflance :— Some 

 Cinchona trees being thrown by the winds into a pool of 

 water, lay there till the water became fo bificr that every 

 body reiufed to drink it. However, one of the ncighbour- 



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