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The qualities of the Cinchona division of the Rubiaceæ are generally tonic; but some of the plants, as for example the Ipecacuanha, are used as emetics, and one (Randia dumetorum) is poisonous.
I have given the section of this flower, that my readers may compare it with the section of the flower of the Cinchona in fig.
In Cinchona bark, the Kinates of Quina and Cinchonia.
It seems to me that Cinchona bears the same relation to Arsenic in the treatment of ague, as Alkalies to Colchicum in gout; the former, in each case, supplying a needful material, the latter neutralizing a morbid process.
Perhaps Cusparia bark comes nearest to the Cinchona alkaloids in its anti-periodic action.
Bonnet, President of the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux, had occasion to observe many soldiers during the Peninsular War, who made use of Cinchona as a preservative against different diseases, but he never found it to produce the pretended paroxysms.
Nay, I will venture to say this, that if every specific were to fail utterly, if the cinchona trees all died out, and the arsenic mines were exhausted, and the sulphur regions were burned up, if every drug from the vegetable, animal, and mineral kingdom were to disappear from the market, a body of enlightened men, organized as a distinct profession, would be required just as much as now, and respected and trusted as now, whose province should be to guard against the causes of disease, to eliminate them if possible when still present, to order all the conditions of the patient so as to favor the efforts of the system to right itself, and to give those predictions of the course of disease which only experience can warrant, and which in so many cases relieve the exaggerated fears of sufferers and their friends, or warn them in season of impending danger.
The credit of introducing Cinchona rests between the Jesuits, the Countess of Chinchon, the Cardinal de Lugo, and Sir Robert Talbor, who employed it as a secret remedy.
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