The story of Cinchona: from myth to medicine
Where Andes hides his cloud-wreathed crest in snow, And roots his base on burning sands below; Cinchona, fairest of Peruvian maids, To Health’s bright goddess, in the breezy glades Of Quito’s temperate plains, an alter reared, Trilled the loud hymn, the solemn prayer preferred Inaugural Dissertation upon the Cinchonas, their History, Uses and Effects, Hooker […]
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