\ 
• -*J 
54S 
to 
he 
1 
fupply the demand, could not 
o 
be procured. Condam 
ffe 
th 
th 
young trees do not die by 
lofins- 
j-> 
th 
bark, but fend out frefh fhoots from the bafe, and as thofe which 
fuffered to become old 
> r e 
time to diffeminate and propagate, we truft 
the fear of exhaufting this valuable medicine is wholly groundlefs. 
We feem to have no fatisfaclory account at what time, or by what 
means, the medicinal efficacy of the Peruvian Bark -which is now fo 
well eftablifhed. was firft difcovered. 
Peru 
intermittent fever 
Spaniards p 
from the Europeans 
that the Peruvians 
ufe, but thought that the 
the 
Some 
known to the Am 
d 
its 
ufe in 
g 
before th 
e 
, but that they concealed this knowledg* 
d, on the contrary, it is aflerted by others 
never fuppofed it to be ii 
for 
any 
medicinal 
large 
purpofe of dy 
t>5 
quantities exported thence was for 
d they actually made fome trials of its 
effects in this way. a Condamine fays, that accord 
/ 
tradi 
th 
Amer 
lions, which fome 
owe the difcovery of this remedy 
lis pretend are fubjecl: to a kind of 
th 
t# 
fev 
mitting 
ftinctively 
c 
r 
i 
of which they were obferved to be cured by in- 
e Cinchona. But Geoffroy ftates 
g 
the bark of 
that 
cumft 
the ufe of the bark was -firft learned from the following cir 
Some cinchona trees being thrown by the winds 
pool of water, lay there till the water became fo bitter that every body 
refufed to drink it. However, one of the neighbouring inhabitants 
being feized with a violent paroxyfm of fever, and finding no othe 
water to quench his thirft, was forced to drink of 
9 
by which 
was perfectly cured 
and prevailed 
pon 
He afterwards related the circumftance to others 
fome of his friends who were ill of fevers tc 
make 
of the fame remedy, with whom it proved equally fuc- 
cefsfuh b The ufe of this excellent medicine, however, was very 
littl 
know 
ab 
the 
year 
638 
when a fignal cure having 
been performed by it on the Spaniih viceroy's lady, the Countefs 
del Cinchon 
Lima, it came 
guifhed by the appell 
pul 
powder 
j 
alfo called, cortex china china, or chinch 
ufe, and hence was dif- 
mitiffse, or the Countels s 
kina kina, or 
Ulloa, Voyage de TA, 
T, 
i 
s 
Mat. Med. Trait e, p. 78 
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