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  • Salix Latifolia Rotunda, Cinchona
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona caribbaea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Second illustration, published in Europe, of a Cinchona tree
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchón takes cinchona. Oil painting.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 2: the countess of Chinchn̤ takes cinchona. Oil painting by a Roman painter.
  • Vegetation of the cinchona forest of Peru.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 3: Cardinal de Lugo orders the use of cinchona in the hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Oil painting.
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: Cinchona succirubra trees (used in production of the anti-malarial drug quinine); a plantation worker stands in front of the trees holding a large container. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: scraping cinchona bark (used to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine) from a tree; an Indian man in a turban and an Indian boy. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • A cinchona (quinine) nursery, India (?): planted in rows on a mountainside. Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • The imaginary castle of the Countess of Chinchon, where cinchona (quinine) was allegedly discovered. Watercolour.
  • A handbook of cinchona culture / by Karel Wessel van Gorkom ; translated by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.
  • Peru: a cinchona forest; a shelter and figures in a clearing. Reproduction of an engraving, 1750/1850.
  • Henry Solomon Wellcome at the dinner to mark the opening of the cinchona exhibition. Photograph, 1930.
  • Henry Solomon Wellcome at the dinner to mark the opening of the cinchona exhibition. Photograph by Walshams, 1930.
  • Indian (cinchona plantation?) workers: men, women and children in front of a hut, Bengal, India (?). Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • The gathering and drying of cinchona bark in a Peruvian forest. Wood engraving, by C. Laplante, c. 1867, after Faguet.
  • A cinchona (used to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine) exploration camp in an Indian (?) forest. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 1: the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant. Oil painting.
  • A map of Paraguay and surrounding area, illustrating where cinchona (quinine) was allegedly first discovered in 1626(?). Etching by D.V. Rossi.
  • Episodes in the history of cinchona 1: the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant. Oil painting by a Roman painter.
  • Notes on the propagation and cultivation of the medicinal Cinchonas, or Peruvian bark trees / by William Graham McIvor.
  • Notes on the propagation and cultivation of the medicinal Cinchonas, or Peruvian bark trees / by William Graham McIvor.
  • Notes on the propagation and cultivation of the medicinal Cinchonas, or Peruvian bark trees / by William Graham McIvor.