, 1872-12-22
-IPPlNCOTT'S MAGAZINE,

4-EVptfICot% UPtu6 Will I'LL aIt1ElH UY GUWAIC
Rowland, on Iron Bridges and Their Conatruc-
tiou.''
''searching for the Quinine Plant in Peru ~ il
continued Some Of the illustrations accompa-
nying this article are of beauty very rare in
magazine art. The following passage gives the
history Of
QUN1NE As a FEBRHUGE:
is doubtful whether the aboriginal inhabitants of
Peru Bolivia, mud Ecuador vera acquainted With the
virtues Of the cinchona plant IS febrfuge 1t seems
probable nevertheless, that the Indians Of LON, $50
miles south Of Peru, were aware Of the qualities Of the
bark for there its first made known to Euro
peans. Is forty years after the pacifcation
of Peru, however, before any comnuncia-
ton .S e, 3. the remedial , secret xss made to
that in 1900 Jesut, who had fever Ut Ma1acotss,
was cured by Peruvian bark In 1888, the Countess
Ana Of Of , ss n tern fever eve and
roy. her husband The Corregidor Of Loxa, Don Juan
Lopez de Canizares, sent parcel Of powdered qun-
him that it was sovereign and infajble remedy for
te1hana. 1t was administered to the Countess, who
G. s sse eoe p
164o, brought with her quantity Of the heal
ing bark. Hence it wna sometimes called Countess
induced Iunseus long AFTER to name the whole genus
Of ne-bearing trees, in her honor, Cnchona By
modern writer's the first has usually been dropped
and the word ia now almost invariably spelled ia that
way, instead Of the more chronological Chinchona The
5esns afterwa1d made great and effective use Of it
result Of their patronage that its use should hays been
for long time opposed by Protestanta and favored
by Catholics. In l67e, Louis XIV. bought the secret
Of preparing quinquina from Sir Robert Tabor an
English doctor, for 1000 lous-dor, 1arge pension,
and title. Under the Grand Monarch it was used At
dessert mingled with Spanish wine Tho delay of it's
discovery until the seventeenth century probably
lest to Tie ~. world I'd nunbe1s OF ya1nable lives.
ea sser of ho o
cinchona bark his death would have been averted aud
the partition Of the Macedonian Empire indefinitely
postponed. Oliver Cromwell was carried OF bv an
ague which the administration Of qrinine would
easily have cured. The bigotry Of medical science
eren atter its efficacy was known and proved, for
long time retarded its dissemination, In l726 La Fon-
taine at the instance Of lady who owed her life to it.
the Countess Of BouiIlon, composed "a poem in two
beauty of the leaves OF Tue cneona and tbs delicious
fragrance Of its flowers, with ausions to which be
might have adorned his verses, were Still unknown in
Europe.
Caroline Cheeseboro begins story entitled
"Probationer Leonhard; or, Three Nights in
the Happy Valley"
Reginald Wynfred takes us to
"THE IRISH CAPITAL"
which, he saTs, is now quite deserted by the no
blesse:
Besides the Lord Chancellor, there is probably not
singee Peer occupying house there to-day. Houses
are excellent and very cheap. An immense mansion
orally about one-third Of those Of New York. Not q
single item OF living is dear.
One of the finest palaces in Dublin was Moira
HAL
The celebrated John Wesley visited Lady MORA at
MORA House in ITS 8" and surprised to observe
though not a more grand, far more elegant room
than he had ever seen in England. It ocagou,
about 20 feet square, and Is or 16 feet hgh having
window Uho sides Of i nlaid throughout with moth
erof pear1 reaching from the top Of the to the
were equally elegant" It was here that two Of the
greatest members Of their respective Legislatures
Charles Fox and Henry Grattan-1rst met
in 1777; and MORA House continued to
be the scene Of splendid entertainments up
to the death OF the first Lord Alorat in
1893. Wesley concludes his letter about MORA House
By asking, Must this too, paes away like drcaln?"
Whether like dream OF no, it certainly has been
egnay the fate Of this whilo proud mansion to pass
from the highest to the very humblest almost 1T
bound. For years after lady 11ora's death lin
1868 the house was kept up by the family but in 1895
it was let to Anti-Nendicity Society. The upper
story vas removed the mansion was stripped Of its
splendid decorations-som Of the furniture is uow
1t Castle Forbes the sea Of the Earl Of aransrd Lady
sloira's grcat-grandsop, worthy descendant,-and
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