10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINAQUINA»
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Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia
Quinine is the most important alkaloid found in the bark of the quinaquina, as it is
known in Quichua, a tree native to the Andes Mountains in South America.
Quinaquina (Cinchona sp.), an evergreen tree 10 to 15 meters tall with glossy
leaves ...
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Lectures on the Materia Medica Etc. Published from the ...
The " Jesuits of La Paz or Chuguiabo used to gather it with care, and send it " to
Rome, where it was distributed under its true name quinaquina. It is " very bitter,
and was given in intermitting fevers. But the Loxa bark " coming to Europe the ...
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Lectures on the Materia Medica: Containing the Natural ...
The " Jduits of La Paz or Chuguiabo used to gather it with care, and fend it " to
Rome, where it was distributed under its true name quinaquina. It is. " very bitter,
and was given in intermitting fevers. Bue the Loxa bark " coming to Europe the ...
Charles Alston, J. Bell ((Edimburgo)), John Hope, 1770
The treasures which Peru yields, and which the Spaniards sought and dug out of
the bowels of the earth, are not to be compared in utility with the bark of the
quinaquina trees which they for a long time ignored.' — Dictionnaire des
Sciences ...
J. Clinton Cunningham, 1921
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Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in ...
According to the historical account, the countess of Chinchona (Spain), very ill
with fever during a trip to South America, was prescribed Cinchona (quinaquina
in the Quichua language) by Incas, which cured her fever. The Englishman
Charles ...
Mario Incayawar, Ronald Wintrob, Lise Bouchard, 2009
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The Century dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the ...
Miller, English Plant Names. quinaquina (ke-na-ke'n&), n. [Also quinquina = F.
quinquina = Sp. quinaquina, < Quichua quinaquina, the tree which yields thebark
called quina: see quina.] The bark of various species of Cinchona. See kin-kina.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
An obsolete form of quinsy. quinancy-wortt, n. An obsolete form of quinsy- wort.
Miller, English Plant Names, quinaquina (ke-na-ke'na), ». [Also quinquina = F.
quinquina = Sp. quinaquina,<. Peruv. quinaquina, the tree which yields the bark ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
[Also quinquina = F. quinquina = Sp. quinaquina, < Quichua quinaquina, the tree
which yields thebark called quina : see quina.] The bark of various species of
Cinchona. See Icin-lcina. quinarian (kwi-na'ri-an), a. and n. [< quinary + -an.] I. a.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
They called the Loxa bark " Quinaquina" (bark of barks,) and Markham has well
shown that in the Quichua language, to which the term belongs, a doubling of a
name is an indication that the plant to which it applies possesses, in the
estimation ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
Miller, English Plant Names. quinaquina (ke-na-ke'na), n. [Also quinquina = F.
quinquina = Sp. quinaquina, < Quichua quinaquina, the tree whichyieldsthebark
called quina : see quina.] The bark of various species of Cinchona. See kin-kina.
