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

In the second period of the distemper, the same drinks were continued, adding thereto some theriac or Jesuit's bark, in order to lessen the frequency of the diarrhœtic evacuations.

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

“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

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

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 Robinson, Fayette

The doctor said I had some kind of an ague, and gave me Jesuit’s bark.

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