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" 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 Linnseus, long afterwards, to name the whole genus of quinine-yielding... "
Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona ... - Page 4
by Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1862 - 572 pages
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The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

1863 - 700 pages
...marble statue would long have been mouldering in dust and oblivion. In 1638, as Mr. Markham tells us, the wife of Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, lay sick of intermittent fever in the palace at Lima. She was a remarkable woman, and had been wife to two viceroys...
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The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

1863 - 714 pages
...have been mouldering in dust andoblirem. In 163S, as Mr. Markham tells us, the wife of Luis Geronx. Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, lay sick of intermittent fever in the pa!««s: Lima. She was a remarkable woman, and had been wife to two viceroys...
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Mountain adventures in the various countries of the world (founded on Les ...

Mountain adventures - 1869 - 404 pages
...fever, an Indian of Malacotas is said to have revealed to him the healing virtues of quinquina-bark, and to have instructed him in the proper way to administer...Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of x Chinchon, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace at Lima. Her famous cure induced Linneus,...
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Letters from India and Kashmir: Written 1870 : Illustrated and Annotated 1873

J. Duguid - 1874 - 320 pages
...of Chincluma was given to the genus Chiiichoniuxe by Linnseus in memory of the Countess of Chiuchon, wife of Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera, Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, Viceroy of Peru in 1638. Suffering from tertian ague in the City of Lima in that year, the Countess...
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Peruvian bark

Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...of the Countess of Chinchon. CH. m. CHAPTER III. THE COUNTESS OF CHINCHON. IN 1638 the wife of Don Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Mendoza, fourth Count of Chinchon, and Viceroy of Peru, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace of Lima.* This lady's maiden name...
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Wonders of Man and Nature: Mountain Adventures in Various Parts of the World ...

Joel Tyler Headley - 1885 - 430 pages
...Losa, being ill of au intermittent fever., an Indian of Malacotas is said to have revealed to him the healing virtues of quinquina bark, and to have instructed...of Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera Bobadilla y Meudoza, fourth Count of Chinchou, lay sick of an intermittent fever in the palace at Lima. Her famous...
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