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of an infusion of the bark of the cuspare, which 

 they consider as a strengthening remedy. Mr. 

 Bonpland discovered the same tree west of Cu- 

 mana, in the gulf of Santa Fe, where it may 

 become one of the articles of exportation from 

 New Andalusia. 



The Catalonian monks prepare an extract of 

 the cortex angosturae, which they send to the 

 convents of their province, and which deserves 

 to be better known in the north of Europe. It 

 is to be hoped, that the febrifuge and antidysen- 

 teric bark of the bonpland ia will continue to be 

 employed, notwithstanding the introduction of 

 another described by the name of false Angos- 

 tura bark, and often confounded with the for- 

 mer. This false Angostura, or Angostura pseudo- 

 ferruginea, comes, it is said, from the brucea 

 antidysenterica ; it acts powerfully on the 

 nerves*, produces violent attacks of tetanos 

 and contains, according to the experiments of 

 Pelletier and Caventon, a peculiar alkaline sub- 

 stance "f - analogous to morphia and strychnin. 



* According to the experiments of Emmert, Marc, and 

 Orfila. 



+ La brucine. Mr. Pelletier has wisely avoided using the 

 word angosturine, because it might indicate a substance taken 

 from the real cortex angosturae, or bonplandia trifoliata. (An- 

 nates de Chimie, vol. xii, p. 117.) We saw at Peru the barks 

 of two new species of weinmannia and wintera mixed with 

 those of cinchona ; a mixture less dangerous, but still inju- 

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