Travels in Peru and India, While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction Into India |
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... Spaniards . Humboldt and Ulloa were of an oppo- site opinion . The stories of its virtues having been discovered by watching the pumas or South - American lions chewing the bark to cure their fevers , mentioned by Condamine ; and of an ...
... Spaniards . Humboldt and Ulloa were of an oppo- site opinion . The stories of its virtues having been discovered by watching the pumas or South - American lions chewing the bark to cure their fevers , mentioned by Condamine ; and of an ...
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... Spaniards . Referring to this circum- stance La Condamine says , " Nul n'est saint dans son pays . " This indifference to , and in many cases even prejudice against the use of the Peruvian bark , amongst the Indians , is very remarkable ...
... Spaniards . Referring to this circum- stance La Condamine says , " Nul n'est saint dans son pays . " This indifference to , and in many cases even prejudice against the use of the Peruvian bark , amongst the Indians , is very remarkable ...
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... Spaniard whose chief source of income was the collection of bark . He obtained some young plants with the intention of taking them down the river Amazons to Cayenne , and thence trans- porting them to the Jardin des Plantes at Paris ...
... Spaniard whose chief source of income was the collection of bark . He obtained some young plants with the intention of taking them down the river Amazons to Cayenne , and thence trans- porting them to the Jardin des Plantes at Paris ...
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... Spaniards cor- rupted the word quina into china ; and in homoeopathy the word china is still retained . In 1735 , when M. de la Condamine visited Peru , the native name of quina - quina was almost en- tirely replaced by the Spanish term ...
... Spaniards cor- rupted the word quina into china ; and in homoeopathy the word china is still retained . In 1735 , when M. de la Condamine visited Peru , the native name of quina - quina was almost en- tirely replaced by the Spanish term ...
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... Spaniards sought and dug out of the bowels of the earth , are not to be com- pared for utility with the bark of the quinquina - tree , which they for a long time ignored . " 5 Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales , quoted by Delondre , p ...
... Spaniards sought and dug out of the bowels of the earth , are not to be com- pared for utility with the bark of the quinquina - tree , which they for a long time ignored . " 5 Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales , quoted by Delondre , p ...
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Page 227 - Crimes were once so little known among them that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house left it open, only placing a little stick across the door as a sign that the master was out, and nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed locks and keys on our doors, they understood that it was from fear of thieves, and when they saw that we had thieves amongst us, they despised us.
Page 227 - Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.
Page 7 - Locke's and all our ingeniouse and able doctors' method " of treating this disease with the Peruvian bark ; adding, " I am satisfied, that of all medicines, if it be good of its kind, and properly given, it is the most innocent and effectual, whatever bugbear the world makes of it, especially the tribe of inferior physicians, from whom it cuts off so much business and gain.
Page 404 - The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with the country people, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the wild creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take them and put honey in their place, but they will allow no one to come near them.
Page 345 - A man's moveable property, after his death, is divided equally among the sons and daughters of all his sisters. His landed estate is managed by the eldest male of the family; but each individual has a right to a share of the income.
Page 255 - They are the size of large pigeons, with orangescarlet feathers on the head, neck, breast, and tail, black wings, light-grey back, and scarlet crest. They have a shrill, harsh cry. The butterflies and moths were numerous and brilliant, but so tame, and in such swarms, as to be a perfect plague. There was one bright swallowtail, with blue wings, fringed with crimson. The torments from venomous insects were maddening ; especially from a kind of fly which in a moment raised swellings and blood-red lumps...
Page 45 - Humboldt reported that 25,000 chinchona-trees were destroyed every year, and Ruiz § protested against the custom of barking the trees, and leaving them to be destroyed by rot. But nothing was ever done in the way of conservancy, either by the Government, or by private speculators whose subsistence depended on a continued supply of bark.
Page 4 - In 1638 the wife of Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace at Lima.