Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 317
uge virtues of Peruvian bark. The first wife of the count was theLady Ana de Osorio, daughter of the Marquis of Astorga, but she died be-fore he became viceroy. Dona Francisca Henriquez de Ribera, his secondwife, accompanied him to Peru, and was attacked at Lima in 1638 by a ter-tian fever. The… … From Ovalcs Regno dc Chile (Rome. 164S). to the vice-queen, and the new remedy, administered by her physician DonJuan de Vega, effected a rapid and complete cure. The Countess of Chin-chon left Peru in 1639, but she died at Cartagena on the passage home.The remedy was known as countesss bark, and…
Cartography
Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
