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Jesuit's bark   /dʒˈɛʒuɪtz bɑrk/   Listen
Jesuit's bark

noun
1.
Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine.  Synonyms: cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark.






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"Jesuit's bark" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ague ought in the first instance to take an emetic, and a little opening medicine. During the shaking fits, drink plenty of warm gruel, and afterwards take some powder of bark steeped in red wine. Or mix thirty grains of snake root, forty of wormwood, and half an ounce of jesuit's bark powdered, in half a pint of port wine: put the whole into a bottle, and shake it well together. Take one fourth part first in the morning, and another at bed time, when the fit is over, and let the dose be often repeated, to prevent a return of the complaint. ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton



Words linked to "Jesuit's bark" :   bark, cinchona bark, chinchona



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