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Jesuit's bark

NOUN
  1. medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

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  • Look at Arria worshipping the drunken clodpate of a husband who beats her; look at Cornelia treasuring as a jewel in her maternal heart the oaf her son; I have known a woman preach Jesuit's bark, and afterwards Dr. Berkeley's tar-water, as though to swallow them were a divine decree, and to refuse them no better than blasphemy. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
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