英语词汇cinchona的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cinchona; quinine. About 1639 the condesa Ana de Chinchón, wife of the conde de Chinchón (ca. 1590–1647), Spanish viceroy of Peru, was stricken with a persistent tropical fever. After European doctors failed to restore her health, she was cured by taking the powdered bark of a native evergreen tree that Peruvian Indians brought her. The condesa and her husband collected the dried bark, which contained quinine, and sent it back to Spain. There the miracle bark was at first called “Countess bark” or “Peruvian bark,” but when Linnaeus named the genus of trees and shrubs yielding it in the condesa’s honor, he misspelled her name. What should have been the “Chinchona tree” became known to history as the Cinchona tree. Today the native South American Cinchona is widely grown throughout the world, notably in Java and India. The quinine extracted from its bark derives its name from quinaqui- na, its Peruvian Indian name.

词汇	cinchona
词源	cinchona; quinine. About 1639 the condesa Ana de Chinchón, wife of the conde de Chinchón (ca. 1590–1647), Spanish viceroy of Peru, was stricken with a persistent tropical fever. After European doctors failed to restore her health, she was cured by taking the powdered bark of a native evergreen tree that Peruvian Indians brought her. The condesa and her husband collected the dried bark, which contained quinine, and sent it back to Spain. There the miracle bark was at first called “Countess bark” or “Peruvian bark,” but when Linnaeus named the genus of trees and shrubs yielding it in the condesa’s honor, he misspelled her name. What should have been the “Chinchona tree” became known to history as the Cinchona tree. Today the native South American Cinchona is widely grown throughout the world, notably in Java and India. The quinine extracted from its bark derives its name from quinaqui- na, its Peruvian Indian name.
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