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Febrifugal   Listen
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Febrifugal  adj.  Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.






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"Febrifugal" Quotes from Famous Books



... acquainted with the qualities of the bark. The Quichua name for the tree, quina-quina—"bark of barks"—shows that they believed it to possess medicinal properties; indeed, there is little doubt that they were aware of its febrifugal qualities, though they might not have attached much importance to them. Through them, probably, the Spanish colonists in the neighbourhood of Loxa first discovered its virtues. It was, however, but little known till the year 1638, when the wife of the Count of Chinchon, Viceroy ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston



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