Galipea Officinalis
This South American tree furnishes Angostura bark, which has important medical properties, some physicians in South America preferring it to cinchona in the treatment of fevers. Its use has been great...
This South American tree furnishes Angostura
bark, which has important medical properties, some physicians in
South America preferring it to cinchona in the treatment of
fevers. Its use has been greatly retarded by bark of the deadly
nux-vomica tree having been inadvertently sold for it. As this
bark is sometimes used in bitters, a mistake, as above, might
prove as fatal as cholera.
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