Note 45 — HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

Sturmius, in his ‘Febrifugi Peruviani Vindiciæ,’ published in 1658, observes that he saw twenty doses of the powder sold at Brussels for sixty florins, in order to be sent to Paris, and that he would willingly have been a purchaser of some doses, even at that price; but the Apothecary was unable to supply him: an anecdote not more illustrative of the reputation of the bark, than of the honesty of the vender.