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X. A Botanical and Medical Account of the Quassia Simaruba, or Tree which produces the Cortex Simaruba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

William Wright
William Wright
Affiliation:
Physician-general in Jamaica
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Extract

The first knowledge we had of the cortex simaruba was in the year 1713. Some of it was sent to France to M. le Compte de Porchartrain, the Secretary of State, as the bark of a tree, called by the natives Simarouba, which they employed with good success in dysentery.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 1790 , pp. 73 - 81
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1790

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* Qualis vera ejusdem arbor sit, jamjam Anbletii indagine cognoscimus, ut tamen et mihi monere incumbat. b. Linnæam equitem, litteris jam anno 1776, ineunte mihi datis, antiquam Aubletii elegantissimum opus illi innotesceret. significasse. Simarubam Quassiae species a se haberi. Ille autem fimarubæ cortex quo Cl. Wright, arborem in Jamaica, vulgarem vestitam esse innuit; pariter in alvi profluviis efficaci, &c.