[f. Tellicherry, a town on the Malabar coast, north of Calicut.] The bark of Wrightia dysenterica; also called CONESSINE bark.
1768. J. Lind, Ess. Dis. Europeans, etc., App. 308. In the East Indies, the Tellicherry bark, or what is there called the Cort de Pala, has been found very beneficial in removing obstinate intermitting fevers.
1822–34. Good’s Study of Med. (ed. 4), I. 626.
