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THE UNIVERSE. 



In many trees^ instead of the bark being saturated with 

 medicinal juices, it secretes aromatics which are highly 







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243. Thyrsus of Flowers of the Yellow Cinchona — Cinchona cordifoUa (Mutis). 



his august spouse was attacked with a severe fever. The corregidor of Loxa, 

 filled with gallantry for the wife of his immediate superior, sent him word that 

 the Indians of the neighbourhood knew of a bark which cured their fevers, and 

 might possibly have the same effect upon a person of so exalted a condition, and 

 begged of him, should his resources fail, at all events to try this medicine of the 

 savages. The vice-queen getting worse and worse, the corregidor was called to 

 Lima in order himself to regulate the dose and mode of preparation of his medi- 

 cine. But it may be easily imagined that no one was impriident enough to 

 administer so extraordinary a powder to the noble patient without some precau- 



