Bot. [f. native name Cuspare.] A genus of trees, now usually called Galipea, species of which yield the Angustura or Cusparia bark used as a tonic; also = CUSPARIN.
1852. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., I. vi. 213, note. The Cuspare of Angostura, known in America under the name of Orinoco bark.
1876. W. Begbie, Bk. Med. Inform., App. 251. Cusparia, a useful tonic in convalescence from diarrhœa and dysentery.
Hence Cusparin (Chem.), a crystalline substance obtained from Angustura bark.
1824. R. Phillips, trans. Pharm. Lond. (1836), 191. It is stated by Saladin that the virtue of Cusparia resides in a peculiar neutral substance which he calls Cusparin.
1879. Watts, Dict. Chem., VIII. 87.
