Throw-in-the-bark Definition
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1790, William Buchan, Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, 11th edition, page 151
In intermitting fevers of an obſtinate nature, I have found it necessary to throw in the bark much faſter.
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1864 (Nov 5), E. Hare, "The treatment of malarious fever", The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2, page 487
An emetic was prescribed, a perspiration broke out, and I now, with an air of confidence, began to throw in the bark, quite sanguine in my expectations of soon checking this formidable disease.
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Origin of Throw-in-the-bark
From the fact that the bark of the cinchona tree is used to make the medicine quinine.
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