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  1. n. Jesuit's bark

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. the bitter bark of trees of various species of Cinchona. It acts as a powerful tonic, and is a remedy for malarial diseases. This property is due to several alkaloids, as quinine, cinchonine, etc., and their compounds; -- called also Jesuit's bark, and cinchona. See Cinchona.

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  1. n. medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

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  • “Two hundred years ago the Italian professor of medicine Ramazzini said that the introduction of Peruvian bark would be of the same importance to medicine that the discovery of gunpowder was to the art of war, an opinion endorsed by contemporary writers on the history of medicine.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

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  1. cortex
  2. Cinchona
  3. cinchona
  1. jesuits' bark
  2. dogwood-bark
  3. calisaya bark
  1. bard
  2. calisaya
  3. cinchona calisaya
  1. cinchona ledgeriana
  2. cinchona officinalis
  3. Quinquina
  1. rubiaceous
  2. bark
  3. decoction

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  1. Jesuit's bark
  1. cinchona
  1. quinine
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  1. cortex
  1. decoction

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