[The complex travel of cinchona barks between Peru and Québec Hôtel-Dieu, in the middle of the eighteenth century].
Duplessis sisters, who were religious nuns in Hôtel-Dieu (Quebec hospital), were exchanging letters with a French apothecary from Dieppe in Normandy, named Jacques-Tranquilain Féret. They asked him to send them in Quebec the drugs and medicines their apothecary needed. Amongst these drugs were cinchona barks that came from Callao in Peru by boat, passed Cape Horn and then sailed to Cadiz, the great Spanish port. Then they embarked to Rouen, which was the French port for goods coming from overseas. The goods from Peru had then to be transported on little fishing boats to Dieppe, where Féret received the barks. The apothecary sent these drugs to Quebec by boats sailing either from Rouen or from La Rochelle. So these Peruvian drugs had to cross two times the Ocean before accessing to North America.
Lorène
L
Simon
Olivier
O
Lafont
D002929:Cinchona; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D065831:Nuns; D010568:Peru; D010598:Pharmacognosy / Q000266:history; D008517:Phytotherapy / Q000266:history*; D011792:Quebec