Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Cinchona .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- any of several trees of the genus Cinchona. Same as
cinchona .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
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Anyway, this is a short (190 page) but glossy book on seven plants and their impact on human history, especially colonialism: tobacco, sugar cane, cotton, tea, the opium poppy, chinchona (the source of quinine) and rubber.
Linkspam for 12-10-2009 nwhyte 2009
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Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.
Les Miserables 2008
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The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion.
Les Miserables 2008
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I said with enjoyment, 'I could certainly get you drunk in the wilderness, but actual gin would depend on juniper bushes, and tonic on chinchona trees for quinine, and I don't think they'd both grow in the same place, but you never know.'
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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I said with enjoyment, 'I could certainly get you drunk in the wilderness, but actual gin would depend on juniper bushes, and tonic on chinchona trees for quinine, and I don't think they'd both grow in the same place, but you never know.'
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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In its crude form the bark of the chinchona tree had been used for its medical properties since times immemorial.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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The forests contain mahogany, lignum-vitæ, and the chinchona tree, from which quinine is made.
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Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.
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The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion.
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The intermediate slopes are clothed with a vegetation partly African, partly European; and here Humboldt, at the end of the last century, proposed to naturalise the chinchona.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
sionnach commented on the word chinchona
the tree bark that yields quinine, named for the countess of Chinchón, wife of viceroy of Peru. Legend has it that when this bark cured her 1638 fever, she had more collected for malaria sufferers.
October 25, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word chinchona
Wow, a 1638 fever sounds like a high one!
;)
October 25, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word chinchona
"Another medical man, Jose Celestino Mutis, left his native Spain in 1760 to go to South America as the private physician of the new viceroy of New Granada. Already fascinated by herbal medicine, Mutis made a study of chinchona, the source of the quinine that Amerindians used to treat fevers. Seeing the great scope for studying botany in the New World, he proposed a royal expedition to collect specimens. Although he had to wait two decades for its authorization, Mutis was able to spend the remaining twenty-five years of his life in an exploration of some 5,000 square miles encompassing tropical, plateau, and mountainous areas. When Alexander Humboldt visited him in Bogota in 1801, Mutis had thirty artists who had been working for years painting his twenty thousand specimens."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 150
December 28, 2016