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count of the Peruvian or Jesuits' Bark, read before the 

 Royal Society in 1737, is the first in order of time which 

 appears to claim any consideration." 



Dr. Thomas Sydenham, one of the fairest and least 

 prejudiced authorities in medicine during the period 

 of the cinchona controversy, uses the term Jesuits' 

 Bark freely. But he employs also the terms Peruvian 

 bark and cinchona. 



Fliickiger accepts practically that a Jesuit Father 

 introduced the bark to the physician of the Countess 

 of Chinchon, having obtained his knowledge of its 

 virtues through the Spanish Corregidor of Loxa, Don 

 Lopez de Canizares. He says, p. 82, "Here in the vil- 

 lage of Malacatos, a traveling Jesuit is said to have 

 been cured by a cacique (Indian priest) of a fever by 

 means of cinchona, and to have extended a knowledge 

 of the remedy." In this village, the Spanish Correg- 

 idor of Loxa, Don Lopez de Canizares, was also cured 

 of fever in 1630. This same Don Lopez, on learning 

 of the illness of the Countess, in Lima, 1638, 1 sent the 

 Jesuits' bark to her physician, Dr. Juan de Vega, who 

 cured her of the disease. In the opinion of the writer 

 of these historical notes the chain seems complete, 

 as follows: 2 



An Indian "medicine man," (priest), in Malacatos, 

 near Loxa, taught a Jesuit missionary the use of the 

 drug. 



This missionary taught others, Canizares of Loxa 

 thus learning of it. 



'If he sent the bark to Spain at once, the date given by Relph (1632) is tentatively 

 verified, to the effect that cinchona as "Jesuits' bark" was used in Spain seven years before 

 the Countess was cured. 



' Needless is it to give references to numerous unmentioned prints that touch this 

 subject. Authorities mentioned in the text are voluminous in themselves and all cite others 

 that will keep one long busy if ultra-research in cinchona is desirable. 



