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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.

Surinam quassia wood (Quassia amara): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general : second pamphlet / by J.M. Honigberger.

Remarks on the concentrated extract; or, anima of quassia, (in the form of pills) lately invented, and prepared by Hallam & Co. Which is found to be an  incomparable remedy for weak and debilitated constitutions ... In short, in all cases where the constitution has been reduced by disease or irregularities.

Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general / by J.M. Honigberger.

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Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general : second pamphlet / by J.M. Honigberger.

Surinam quassia wood (Quassia amara): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

Cholera : its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general / by J.M. Honigberger.

Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.