PERUVIAN BARK. 
assert that a Peruvian, while afflicted with a 
fit of the ague, being urged by extreme thirst 
to drink copiously of the water of a pool into 
which the trees, or their branches, had some 
time before fallen, received a compleat cure. 
About the year 1640, the Comitissa del 
Cinchon,. Lady of the then Spanish Viceroy, 
having been restored to health by the same 
remedy, it was called, by the Spaniards, in. 
compliment to their Viceroy's Lady, Cortex, 
or P ul vis, Coraitissae Cinchona, Chinachma 
or Chinchina, Kinakina or Kinkina, Quina- 
quina or Quinquina ; and, from the interest 
which the Cardinal de Lugo, and the Jesuit 
Fathers, early took in the administration of 
this valuable medicine, it has been very gene- 
rally named Cortex, c r Pulvis, Cardinails de 
Lugo, Jesuitlcus, Patrum, &c. 
It's introduction into Europe had strong 
prejudices to encounter ; and it was, for a 
considerable time, reprobated by many eminent 
hysicians, and dreaded as a dangerous remedy. 
It's character, however, has at length become 
universally 
