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Show 440 PLATEAU OF CAXAMAROA. having been made by the natives of the country round Loxa, since even at the present day the Indians of the neighboring valleys, where intermittent fevers are very prevalent, shun the use of bark. (Compare my memoir, entitled "iiber die Chinawalder," in the "Magazin der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde," zu Berlin, Jahrg. i. 1807, s. 59.) The story of the natives having learnt the virtues of the Cinchona. from the lions, who "cure themselves of intermittent fevers by gnawing the bark of the China (or Quina) tree" -(Hist. de l' Acad. des Sciences, annee 1738, Paris, 17 40, p. 233)-appears to be entirely of European origin, and nothing but a monkish fable. Nothing is known in the New Continent of the "Lion's fever;" for the large so-called American Lion (Felis concolor), and the small mountain Lion (Puma), whose footmarks I have seen on the snow, are never tamed and made the subjects of observation; nor are the different species of Felin::e in either continent accustomed to gnaw the bark of trees. The name of Countess's Powder (Pulvis Comitissre), occasioned by the remedy having been distributed by the Countess of Chinchon, was afterwards changed to that of Cardinal's or Jesuit's powder, because Cardinal de Lugo, Procurator-General of the order of the Jesuits, spread the knowledge of this valuable remedy during a journey through France, and recommended it to Cardinal Mazarin the more urgently, as the brethren of the order were beginning to prosecute a lucrative trade in South American Quina-bark, which they obtained through their m1sswnaries. It is hardly necessary to remark that, in the long controversy which ensued respecting the good or bad effects of the fever bark, the Protestant physicians sometimes permitted themselves to be influenced by religious intolerance and dislike of the Jesuits. CS) p. 415.-" Aposentos de Mulalo." Respecting these aposentos (dwellings, inns, in the Quichua language tampu, whence the Spanish form tambo ), compare Ciega, . Chronica del Peru, cap. 41 ( ed. de 1554, p. 108) and my V ues des Cordilleres, Pl. xxiv. |