Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.

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<p>The painting illustrates the story (probably apocryphal in some respects) that the Viceroy of Peru, who arrived there on 19 April 1629, Don Luis Jeronimo de Cabrera y Bobadilla, Count of Chinchón, was persuaded to give to his wife, Doña Francisca Henriquez Ribera, Countess of Chinchón, a native remedy (bark of the tree subseqently called cinchona) to cure her intermittent fever. On the left is a native Peruvian bringing supplies of the bark from the jungle, in the centre is the count, and on the right is the countess</p>

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Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.

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