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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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inisteredit without the slightestfear or hesitation to abrother of another orderwho happened to be illThe treatment proved suc-cessful, and they receivedthe credit which they sorichly deserved. It wouldappear that bark was firstintroduced into En ropeabout the year 1632. Itis usually stated thatwe are indebted to theCountess of Chinchon forthe importation, and thedrug from that circum-stance acquired the nameof Cinchona bark, or Countesss powder. Asthere appears to be some doubt as to which Countess of Chinchon is referred to, we take this oppor-tunity of stating that the lady in question was the wife of Count Chinchon,Don Geroninio Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadella J. Mendoza. After this ex-planation we proceed with the history of the drug. About ten years later itwas carried by the Jesuits to Borne, and by them distributed among the mem-bers of their order, by whom it was taken to their respective stations, andused with great success in the treatment of agues. One of the most active in
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Pig. 2.<—CHINCHONA CALISATA. 756 MATERIA MEDICA. promoting its employment was Cardinal de Lugo, and in this way it acquiredthe names of Jesuits bark or Jesuits powder, and Pulvis Cardinal deLugo. In time, however, it, like many another drug, fell into disuse, and itsvery existence appears to have been forgotten by most people. But not by everyone, for a few years later Sir Robert Talbot acquired a great reputation forthe cure of ague by a secret remedy, which when purchased for a large sum byLouis XIY. turned out to be nothing more than our old friend the cinchona bark.From this time forth the drug was known in France as Talbots powder or the English remedy. The genus yielding the bark has been divided into a large number of differentspecies, twenty-one being enumerated by one botanist alone. Innumerable books,memoirs, and pamphlets have been written about these different species without anyone being a bit the wiser. It is now generally admitted, however, that there arethree chie

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