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

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Jesuit's bark

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 William Saunders

I had a headache, and it hurt me to read, and the Jesuit’s bark made every day a sickening terror.

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

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 George Birkbeck Norman Hill

Overcome by this evidence I bestow on the good fathers a double portion of gratitude, for they imported the Quinquina yet known as "Jesuit's bark."

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

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 Honor? Bourguignon