Jesuit

The oldest effective drug for the treatment of this disease is indisputably quinine. Although the antipyretic activity of cinchona bark was known to the Incas, it remained for the Jesuit missionaries to uncover its antimalarial properties in the early seventeenth century. The advance of organic chemistry led to the isolation and identification of the alkaloid, quinine, as the active compound at the turn of this century. The emerging clinical importance of this drug led up to the establishment of cinchona plantations in the Dutch East Indies. This very circum-... 

Jesuiten-rinde, /. Jesuit bark (cinchona bark), -tee, m. Mexican tea (Chenopodium ambro aioidea). 

One important reason for the emergence of Paracelsian alchemical illustration may have been its function as a psychological compensation for the rejection of Catholic imagery by the Protestants and the resulting spiritual and emotional insecurity experienced by many of the faithful. It is not merely coincidental that Paracelsian iconography should appear in Protestant areas where traditional Catholic icons had been destroyed. (The development of a specihcally Catholic interest in alchemy, however, was a phenomenon of the mid-seventeenth century developed in the work of Athanasius Kircher and other Jesuits.) ... 

For a colourful study of a colourful figure see Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Kiowledge (London Thames and Hudson, 1979). A more specific study of Jesuit alchemy is Martha Baldwin, Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth Century, Ambix, (1993) 42-52. 

Jesuit priests who arrived in the middle of the century gradually took over control of most of the producing areas and began the cultivation of selected varieties to ensure supply. Portuguese invaders from Brazil brought back Indian prisoners with their knowledge of the use of the plant as a beverage, which facilitated the spread of its use in many parts of Brazil. 

The Jesuit Joachim Bouvet... approached Leibniz with a complete philosophy built from Christian dogma, Hermetic magic, Chinese classics, and Leibniz s binary arithmetic. In... 

I) We go to school through lanes and back streets so that we won t meet the respectable boys who go to the Christian Brothers School or the rich ones who go to the Jesuit school, Crescent College. The Christian Brothers boys wear tweed jackets, warm woolen sweaters, shirts,... 

Starck excited the family, for they remembered the shady crypto-Jesuit and his attempts to dominate their lodge. 

No one has managed to penetrate all the murky layers of the diamond necklace affair, but the contemporary figure who came closest was Abbe Georgel, a Jesuit priest and man of business who served as Rohan s secretary for more than twenty years. To the last, Georgel remained convinced... 

During the 17th century, the Jesuits brought with them from South... 

In 1653 Pere Francesco G. Bressani, a Jesuit missionary to New France, stated in his report that There is a Copper ore, which is very pure, and which has no need of passing through the fire but it is in places far distant and hard to reach.. .. I have seen it in the hands of the Barbarians, but no one has visited the place. . (161). 

In 1660 one of the Jesuit fathers (probably Druillettes) met a Christian Indian who had explored the Lake Superior region. The account states that this lake is enriched in its entire circumference with mines of lead in a nearly pure state with copper of such excellence that pieces as large as one s fist are found, all refined and with great rocks having whole veins of turquoise (162). The turquoise was probably amethyst. 

The Jesuit explorers of Lake Superior compared it to a bow and arrow, the Canadian shore being the bow, the southern or United States shore tire bowstring, and the Keweenaw promontory the arrow. In this... 

Thwaites, R. G., The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Burrows... 

Father Joseph de la Roche, Recollet Daillon, a French Jesuit missionary, visited some oil springs near Lake Erie in 1627 (18). The Jesuit Relation of 1656-57, which was edited by Paul le Jeune and published in Paris in 1658, states that As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats (Eries), one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like brandy, and boils up in bubbles of flame when fire is applied to it. It is, moreover, so oily that all our Savages use it to anoint and... 

Robert Boyle stated in 1661, in his Sceptical Chymist, drat sal ammoniac is composed of muriatic (hydrochloric) acid and the volatile alkali (ammonia) and told how to separate the urinous and common salts (27). In 1716 Geoffroy the Younger demonstrated the composition of sal ammoniac and prepared it by sublimation (28, 29). In the same year, the Jesuit missionary Father Sicard described its preparation at Dam ire or Damayer, one mile from die City of El Mansura in the Nile Delta. In twenty-five large laboratories and several smaller ones, it was sublimed in glass vessels from die soot of die burned dung of camels and cows, to which, he said, had been added salt and urine. Lemere, the French consul at Cairo, described die process in 1719 for the Academy of Sciences in Paris, but made no mention of salt or urine (29, 30, 31). 

Baron Ignaz Edler von Born was born at Cluj, Transylvania, on December 26, 1742, received his elementary education at Hermannstadt and Vienna, and was for sixteen months a member of the Jesuit order. After extended travels in several European countries, he returned to his mother country and devoted the rest of his life to natural science,... 

Klaproth said that lepidolite, the first source of rubidium, was discovered by the Abb6 Nicolaus Poda of Neuhaus (1723 -1798), a Jesuit... 

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