Jesuit's bark

American  

noun

1. cinchona.

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Etymology

Origin of Jesuit's bark

First recorded in 1685–95; introduced into Europe from the Jesuit missions in South America

Example Sentences

Afterwards the Jesuits used it; hence it is sometimes called Jesuit's bark.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

“Nonsense!” he ejaculated, but I assured him the doctor said I had an ague, and I had been obliged to take Jesuit’s bark.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

I had two surgeons to attend me at Corte, a Corsican and a Piedmontese; and I got a little Jesuit's bark from the spiceria, or apothecary's shop, of the Capuchin convent.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

In the third period, they sought to overcome the wasting of strength in the system by means of tonic and nutritious drinks, decoctions of centaury, Jesuit's bark, juniper berries, &c.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

Clifford here hath been importuning me to have a surgeon, to dose you with Jesuit’s bark, and I know not what else.

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster