英语词汇quassia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

quassia; quassin. The black slave Graman Quassi gives his name to this genus of small trees. Quassi discovered the medic- inal value of the bark and heartwood of a group of tropical trees common to the Dutch colony of Surinam in the South American Guianas. Using the drug he extracted to treat his fel- low natives, he “came to be almost worshipped by some” and when his discovery was communicated to Linnaeus by C. G. Dahlberg in 1730, the botanist named the genus of trees in the slave’s honor. (Quassia’s name probably comes from the Ashanti dialect word Kwasida.) The drug he discovered is known as Surinam quassi today, and is effective against intestinal worms, as a tonic, and as an insecticide. The drug’s chief constituent is the bitter quassin, which is extracted from the nearly white wood in minute quantities.

词汇	quassia
词源	quassia; quassin. The black slave Graman Quassi gives his name to this genus of small trees. Quassi discovered the medic- inal value of the bark and heartwood of a group of tropical trees common to the Dutch colony of Surinam in the South American Guianas. Using the drug he extracted to treat his fel- low natives, he “came to be almost worshipped by some” and when his discovery was communicated to Linnaeus by C. G. Dahlberg in 1730, the botanist named the genus of trees in the slave’s honor. (Quassia’s name probably comes from the Ashanti dialect word Kwasida.) The drug he discovered is known as Surinam quassi today, and is effective against intestinal worms, as a tonic, and as an insecticide. The drug’s chief constituent is the bitter quassin, which is extracted from the nearly white wood in minute quantities.
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