Peruvian Bark. a Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona Cultivation Into British India
The book Peruvian Bark. a Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona Cultivation Into British India was written by author Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916 Here you can read free online of Peruvian Bark. a Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona Cultivation Into British India book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Peruvian Bark. a Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona Cultivation Into British India a good or bad book?
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The tower is isolated, and about twenty yards from the church, apparently of a different date. Kows of Indian girls, in their gay-coloured dresses, were sitting in the plaza before their little heaps of chunus, ocas, potatoes, and other provisions, amongst which, at the season of Easter, there are always great quantities of herbs gathered on the mountains, possessing supposed medicinal virtues. Among these a fern, called racci-racci, is used as an emetic ; churccu-churccu, a small wild oxalis, ...is taken as a cure for colds ; chichira, the root of a small crucifer, for rheumatism ; llacua-llacua, a composita, for curing wounds ; quissu, a nettle, used as a purgative ; cata- cata, a valerian, as an antispasmodic ; tami-tami, the root, of a gentian, as a febrifuge; quachanca, a euphorbia, the powdered root of which is taken as a purgative ; hama-hama, the root of a valerian, said to be an excellent specific against epilepsy ; * and many others, the native names of which, with their uses, were gif en me, but I was unacquainted with their botanical names.
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