Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction Into IndiaJ. Murray, 1862 - 572 頁 |
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第 225 頁 - Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
第 5 頁 - Locke's and all our ingeniouse and able doctors' method " of treating this disease with the Peruvian bark ; adding, " I am satisfied, that of all medicines, if it be good of its kind, and properly given, it is the most innocent and effectual, whatever bugbear the world makes of it, especially the tribe of inferior physicians, from whom it cuts off so much business and gain.
第 230 頁 - ... Islander, and tobacco to the rest of mankind; but its use produces invigorating effects which are not possessed by the other stimulants. From the most ancient times the Peruvians have used this beloved leaf, and they still look upon it with feelings of superstitious veneration. In the time of the Yncas it was sacrificed to the Sun, the Huillac Umu or high priest chewing the leaf during the ceremony ; and, before the arrival of the Spaniards, it was used, as the cacao in Mexico, instead of money.
第 402 頁 - The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with the country people, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the wild creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take them and put honey in their place, but they will allow no one to come near them.
第 343 頁 - A man's moveable property, after his death, is divided equally among the sons and daughters of all his sisters. His landed estate is managed by the eldest male of the family; but each individual has a right to a share of the income.
第 39 頁 - He was nearly naked, and covered with myriads of insects, whose stings had hastened his end. His face was so swollen as to be wholly unrecognisable, and his limbs were in a frightful state.
第 2 頁 - In 1638 the wife of Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace at Lima. Her famous cure induced Linnaius, long afterwards, to name the whole genus of quinine-yielding trees in her honour chinchona.
第 347 頁 - to an arrow shot from heaven, raising its graceful head and feathery crown in luxuriance and beauty above the verdant slopes.
第 43 頁 - A century ago, Condamine raised a warning voice against the destruction that was going on in the forests of Loxa. Ulloa advised the government to check it by legislation; soon afterwards Humboldt reported that 25,000 cinchona trees were destroyed every year, and Ruiz protested against the custom of barking the trees, and leaving them to be destroyed by rot. But nothing was...
第 498 頁 - It is to the action of leaves, — to the decomposition of their carbonic acid, and of their water ; to the separation of the aqueous particles of the sap from the solid parts that were dissolved in it ; to the deposition thus effected of various earthy and other substances, either introduced into plants, as silex and metallic salts, or formed there, as the vegetable alkaloids ; to the extrication of nitrogen; and, probably, to other causes as yet unknown, — that the formation of the peculiar secretions...