throw in the bark

== English == === Etymology === From the fact that the bark of the cinchona tree is used to make the medicine quinine. === Verb === throw in the bark (third-person singular simple present throws in the bark, present participle throwing in the bark, simple past threw in the bark, past participle thrown in the bark) (obsolete, medicine) To administer quinine. 1864 (Nov 5), E. Hare, "The treatment of malarious fever", The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2, page 487 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.