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meat and muscles, to correct them in so cold a climate. Dalechampius, in the 

 Historia Lugd. describes and figures this bark likewise, under the name of cortex 

 Winteranus, p. 1858 ; and so does Parkinson, p. l652. Caspar Bauhin, in his 

 Pin. p. 461, calls it laurifolia Magellanica cortice acri. And Jonston, in his 

 Dendrologia, p. 232, arbor laurifolia Magellanica. Those likewise who passed 

 the Magellanic Straits with Sir John Narborough, about 1669, took notice of 

 this tree and bark. But no person has given so good or full an account of it as 

 Mr. George Handisyd, who came from thence about 2 or 3 years since. He 

 told me several particulars relating to it, in the following description, by which 

 I cannot reduce it to any of our kind of plants, so well as to the periclymenum, 

 and therefore shall call it, though it differs in many things from the honysuckle, 

 periclymenum rectum foliis laurinis cortice acri aromatico. He assured me that 

 this tree rose to be taller and larger than an apple-tree, spreading very much 

 both in root and branches ; the twigs had on them leaves of a light green colour 

 on their upper side, standing on half-inch-long foot-stalks, are an inch and 

 half long, and an inch broad in the middle where broadest, and whence they 

 decrease to both ends, ending blunt. The flowers stand on three quarters 

 inch-long foot-stalks, 2, 3, or more of them together, something like those 

 of the periclymenum ; each of them are milk-white, pentapetalous, and smell 

 like jasmine; to which succeeds an oval berry, made up of 2, 3, or more acini 

 or little berries, standing together on the same common foot-stalk, of a light 

 green colour, with some black spots; and in these berries are contained several 

 black aromatic seeds, something like the stones in grapes. It grows very plen- 

 tifully in the middle of the Straits of Magellan. The leaves of this tree were 

 used with other herbs by Mr. Handisyd for fomentations, in several cases with 

 very good success; but he admired most the use of the bark inwardly, boiling 

 half a dram of it with some carminative seeds, and giving it so to those of the 

 ship under his care who were very much afflicted with the scurvy; it usually 

 sweated them, and they were very much relieved. The same medicine likewise 

 he administered with much success to many of the ship, who were sick by eat- 

 ing a poisonous sort of seal in those parts, called a sea lion, although they had 

 been so ill as to lose most of their skins, which peeled off their bodies by 

 degrees and in large pieces. 



By the preceding description, it appears that the cortex Winteranus, com- 

 monly sold in the shops, is not he true cortex Winteranus. But I must needs 

 say, though they are the barks of two very different trees, and growing in very 

 different places, and appear quite different, yet their taste is much the same, 

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