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.
throw in the bark
Türkische aussprache
thrō în dhi bärk
Aussprache
/ˈᴛʜrō ən ᴛʜē ˈbärk/ /ˈθroʊ ɪn ðiː ˈbɑːrk/
Etymologie
() From the fact that the bark of the cinchona tree is used to make the medicine quinine.