CORTEX CINCHONiE. 



srs 



known 



Madrid 



(1639), when it was first tried at 



The introduction of Peruvian Bark into Europe is described b} 



Chifflet 



Netherlands and Burgundy, in his Piilvis Febrifugus rhis Americam 

 vcntilatiLS, published at Brussels in 1653 (or 1651 ?). He says that 

 among the wonders of the day, many reclfon the tree growing in the 

 kingdom of Peru, which the Spaniards call Palo de Calenturas, i.e. 

 lAgnitm febrium. Its virtues reside chiefly in the bark, which is 

 known as China febris, and which taken in powder drives off the 

 febrile paroxysms. He 



the bark has been imported into Spain, and thence sent to the Jesuit 

 Cardinal Joannes de Lug& at Rome,^ Chifflet adds, that it has been 

 carried from Italy to Belgium by the Jesuit Fathers going to the 

 election of a general, but that it was also brought thither direct from 

 Peru by Michael Belga, who had resided some years at Lim« 



Chifflet, though candidly admitting the efficacy of the new drug 

 when properly used, was not a strong advocate for it; and his publica- 



o 



tion started an acrimonious controversy, in which Honoratins Faber, a 

 Jesuit (1C65), Fonseca, physician to Pope Innocent X., Sebastiano Bado^ 

 of Genoa (1656 and 1663), and Sturm (1659) appeared in defence 

 of the febrifuge ; while Plempius (1655), Glantz, an imperial physician 

 of Ratisbon (1653), Godoy, physician to the king of Spain (1653), 

 Rene Moreau (1655), Arbinet and others contended in an opposite 



sense. 



From one of these disputants, Roland Sturm, a doctor of Louvam, 

 who wrote in 1659,^ we learn that four years previously, some of the 

 new febrifuge had been sent by the archduke Leopold to the Spanish, 

 ambassador at the Hague, and that he (Sturm) had been required to 



report upon it. He 



Brussels and Antwerp as Pulvis Jesuiticus, because the iJ 

 >^'ere in the habit of administering it gratis to indi 



Jesuit Fathers 



persons 



ndigent 



suffering from quartan fever; but that it was more commonly called 



ns Ferua^ius or PemvianaTii Fehrif 



At Rome it bore the 



w.._ ..»..,.o„.^co,mi Cardmalis de Lugo, or Pulvis patrum; 



the Jesuits at Eome received it from the establishments of their order 

 in Peru, and used to give it away to the poor in Cardinal de Lugo s 

 palace. In 1658 Sturm saw 20 doses sent to Paris which cost 60 

 norms. He gives a copy of the handbilP of 1651 which the apothecaries 

 of Rome used to distribute with the costly powder. 



s J illerobel, quoted by Bado, op. cU. 202. 

 R«x.n <=f 'iinal belonged to a family 

 oevuie which town had the monoDoh 



the trade with America. 



of 

 onopoly of 



tile o 



Bado in his Anast'asls, lib. 3, quotes 



^ith?i^'^^^^ ^^ many persons as coinciding 

 £^f>^^yi Peruvianl Vindiciarum pars 



prior 



mt^ .,' - Historiam complectens ejus- 



it 



1659. 12°. 



la rl^^ ^"- ^^^ y^oviXs, :—Modo di adoprare 

 Cnrf?" • '". '^^'^(^mntn della Febr e.—Quest!i 

 «rteccia SI porta dal Ilegno di Peru, e si 



chiama China, o vero China della febre, 

 laouale si adopra per la febre quartana,_ e 

 terzana, che venga con freddo : s'adropra in 



questo mode, cio6 : • • \ a 



Se ne piglia dramme due, e si pista tina, 

 con passaila per setaccio ; e tre hore prima 

 incirca, che debba venir la febre si mette 

 " in infusione in un bicchiero di vino bianco 

 gacliardissimo, e quando il freddo com- 

 Siincia i venire, b si seiite qualche minimo 

 principio, si prende tutta la presapreparata, 

 e si mette il paticnte in letto, _ 



Avertasi, si potrJi dare detta Corteccia ncl 

 mode sudetto nella febre terzana, quando 



