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been cured of an attack of fever by its use, hence the 
rly names of the medicine were Peruvian or Jesuit’s bark 
d Countess’s powder. The trees yielding this bark were 
t discovered until a century later, when La Condamine and - 
ssieu, members of a French exploring party, obtained some 
plants. Linnaeus established the botanical genus Cinchona 
n 1742. Peruvian bark was acknowledged as a most valuable 
medicine soon after its introduction into Europe, and the 
jhe preservation of the natural forests in South America. It 
“would appear that the Jesuits in Peru about 1650 began 
0 distribute the bark to those of their fraternity stationed in 
her parts of the world, as was their usual practice upon 
the discovery of any new article of economic value. In this 
nner it probably reached India not long after its discovery 
nm America. 
_ After its admission in 1677 to the London Pharmacopeia, 
was necessarily sent out to the physicians of the English 
st India‘Company. Its use must have spread pil, as in 
i es 
ark (S) in the Makhzan-el-Adwiya of Mir ‘Muhammad 
Husain, showing that it was already well known to the native 
physicians. He describes it as a bark resembling Cassia bark 
t of a darker colour, and remarks that its medicinal proper-. 
ties are said to have been discovered in Peru by a sect of Chris- 
ns called Jesuits, who first broaght it to Hurope, and for 
his reason it bears the name of Jesuit’s bark. It is also 
alled Kina Kina. He correctly describes its use as an anti- — 
riodic, and pronounces it to be hot and dry in the second 
