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example, p. 9, "Before the year 1730 no botanical 

 history of the Quinquinia or Arbor Febrifuga Peru- 

 viana, as the Cinchona offidnalis was then called, is 

 found worthy of attention." 



The evidence presented, in our opinion, firmly es- 

 tablishes Quinia-quinia as the Indian name of cin- 

 chona, regardless of the spelling, in historical literature. 



"JESUITS' BARK." It is generally accepted that 

 cinchona owes its introduction to the Jesuit mission- 

 aries to South America, from whom it took the name 

 "Jesuits' Bark." It also received the name "cinchona" 

 from the Countess of Chinchon, who in Peru, through 

 the agency of the Jesuits, had by its means been cured 

 of a fever. It is, however, a subject of discussion, as 

 previously stated, whether the Jesuit Father who, 

 through the Corregidor of Loxa, introduced the drug 

 to the physician who treated the Countess, obtained 

 his knowledge of its virtues from the Indians. It is 

 also a matter of discussion whether the "bark" was 

 first brought into Europe by the Jesuits, or by the 

 Countess of Chinchon. Let us present briefly the 

 record. 



Relph, 1794, states that "the 'Peruvian bark' was 

 first brought to Spain in the year 1632, 1 and that its 

 febrifuge power was recognized in that country from 

 an actual trial of its success in 1639 ; 2 yet so prej- 

 udiced against it were the Spanish physicians, that, 

 had not its use been promoted and zealously guarded 

 by the Jesuits, the utility of this medicine might have 

 been still unestablished." He adds that Arrot's "Ac- 



i That was sk years before the Countess was cured of fever, and eight years before 

 she sent specimens of the bark to Europe. We have not been able elsewhere to verify the 

 date 1632. 



'This date conforms to the accepted date of the Countess' exportation. 



