or Angostura. A town on the Orinoco, now called Ciudad Bolivar. It gives its name to a bark, valuable as a febrifuge and tonic, the produce of Galipea or Cusparia febrifuga.
1791. A. Brande (title), Experiments and Observations on the Angustura Bark.
1840. Pereira, Mat. Med., 1204. Angostura bark … was first publicly noticed in the London Medical Journal for 1789.
1866. Masters, in Treas. Bot., 517. The means, chemical and otherwise, of distinguishing the true from the false Angostura barks.
1879. Miss Braddon, Vixen, III. 191. Propped up with sherry and Angostura bitters.
1879. Watts, Dict. Chem., 3rd. Suppl. 87. Sections of true Angustura bark.
1881. Syd. Soc. Lex., Angustura.
