74 PHARMACOPEIAL DRUGS 



than in the disputants' own words, as late as 1683, 

 (Gideon Harvey), 1 and 1715, (Sydenham) 2 : 



Harvey, whose antipathy to cinchona was perhaps 

 due to the fact that it was first introduced into England 

 through newspaper advertisements by an apothecary, 

 spares no words in attacking the apothecary who pre- 

 sumed to introduce the "Quack" remedy. Nor does 

 he handle more kindly the physicians "who prosti- 

 tute their calling by using a remedy thus introduced." 

 Let us quote: 



"This Jesuits' Powder is not a medicine newly found, 

 but revived by a debauched ApotJiecaries' Apprentice 

 of Cambridge, in the application to all intermittent 

 Feavors, and he in this empirical practice, is most 

 diligently imitated by our most famous Physic Doctors, 

 as their Esculapius and first master. (A hopeful tribe 

 in the meantime that shall leave Sense, Reason, and 

 Dogmata, to follow a Quack or Empirick)." 3 



The opinion of Dr. Harvey concerning the "Fathers 

 Jesuits whose name is put upon the parcel," 4 is ex- 

 pressed as follows: 



"However, I am of the opinion that the aforesaid 

 drug is artificially prepared, the tree spoken of, or some 

 other like it, affording nothing but wood, into which 

 the bitter taste is immitted, by macerating it a con- 

 venient tune in the juice of a certain Indian plant, to 

 which that penetrating bitterness is peculiar." 



1 See note 1, page 76. 



"The English Hippocrates," whose work on fevers, published in 1666, gave cinchona 

 a hearty welcome. This was naturally offensive to the anti-cinchona faction, as shown by 

 the extracts on pages 75, 76. 



To take from the world's products, medicines as well as foods, introduced by parties 

 engaged in commerce, would impoverish humanity. And yet the art of thoughtlessly sneer- 

 ing at the "Commercial" man is to some a pleasant pastime. 



'This is the only reference we have noticed concerning the method of distributing 

 Jesuits Powder. Concerning the amount of the powder and the price, Harvey states, page 

 149, "a crown an ounce." 



