Memorial to Congress On the Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree in the United ...
Memorial to Congress On the Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree in the United ...
American Medical Association
The book Memorial to Congress On the Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree in the United ... was written by author American Medical Association Here you can read free online of Memorial to Congress On the Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree in the United ... book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Memorial to Congress On the Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree in the United ... a good or bad book?
What reading level is Memorial to Congress On the Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree in the United ... book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
31, 1865, inclusive, as communicated to him by the Surgeon-General. Sulphate of quinine, 595,544 oz. " cinchona, 343,22 6 oz. Powdered Calisaya bark, 259,258 oz. In view of the great medicinal value of this bark, it is no great wonder that the attention of scientific men was early attracted to an investigation of the nature and habit of the tree which produced it. And yet no description of the tree was published until the lapse of a whole century after attention was first especially drawn to it...s properties in 1638, by the cure of the Countess of Cinchon, wife of the viceroy of Peru, by its use. In 1738 La Condamine published a description of the cinchona, accompanied by a draw- Digitized by Google MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS. 5 ing. This learned man had been sent to Peru by the Academy of Sciences of France to measure a degree of the meridian. In com- pany with Joseph de Jussieu, the botanist of the expedition, he visited the localities which furnished the bark, with the view of examining and describing the tree.
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
User Reviews: