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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and in many cases even prejudice against, the use of Peruvian bark, amongst the Indians, is very remarkable. Poeppig, writing in 1830, says that in the Peruvian province of Huanuco the people, who are much subject to tertian agues, have a strong repugnance to its use. The Indian thinks that the cold north alone permits the use of fever-bark; he considers it as very heating, and therefore an unfit remedy in complaints which he believes to arise from inflammation of the blood. Humboldt also notices this repugnance to using the bark amongst the natives; and Dr. Spruce makes the same observation with respect to the people of Ecuador and Colombia.f He says that they refer all diseases to the influence of either heat or cold; and, confounding cause and effect, they suppose all fevers to proceed from heat. They justly believe bark to be very heating, and hence their prejudice against its use in fevers, which they treat with frescos or cooling drinks. Even in Guayaquil the prejudice against quinine used to be so strong that, when a physician administered it, he was obliged to call it by another name. Poeppig, Reiee. t Dr. Spruce's Report. 8 Parentage of the Countess of Chinchon. en. CHAPTER III. THE COUNTESS OF CHINCHON. Ix 1638 the wife of Don Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chin- chon, and Viceroy of Peru, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace of Lima. This lady's maiden name was Ana de Osorio, a daughter of the noble family, whose founder was created Marquis of Astorga by Henry IV., King of Castille. The eighth Marquis had a daugher by his wife Dona Blanca Manrique y Aragon, named Ana, born in 1599, in her father's palace at Astorga.f Her father died on January 28th, 1613, and her mother at Valderas in 1619. Both are...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217270847 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217270840 |
| Weight | 1.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.07 In |
| List Price | $22.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 480 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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