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same complaint, when the Loxa Corregidor forwarded a parcel 

 of powdered quinaquina as a sovereign and never-failing remedy 

 for " tertiana." It effected a complete cure, and the particular 

 plant which had this honour, and yields the true and original 

 Peruvian bark is, as Howard justly concludes, the Ghahuarguera 

 variety of Ghinchona Gondaminea, a kind containing a large per- 

 centage of Ohinchonidine (the importance of which is just 

 beginning to be recognized). It is therefore not to quinine, 



CHiifCHONA condaminea, TAB. chahuaegueea (reduced one-half). 



but to Ghinchonidine that the countess's cure was due. That 

 lady on returning to Spain in 1640, took with her a quantity 

 of the healing bark, and was thus the first to introduce this 

 invaluable medicine into Europe. Hence it was sometimes 

 called Countess's bark, or Countess's powder; and hence, to 

 commemorate the event, Linnaeus named the genus of plants 

 producing these barks, Ghinchona. By some accident, not 

 isolated in his nomenclature, he mis-spelt the name, writing 



