A cassava plant at Barranquilla, Colombia. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1726.

  • Malie, Thomas, approximately 1700-approximately 1789.
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1726
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11918i
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A cassava plant at Barranquilla, Colombia. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1726. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1726 (Barranquilla)

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1 drawing : pencil and pen and brown ink and grey wash ; 37.5 x 30.4 cm

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Cassava the root of w:ch bread is made in America the expressed juice is a deadly poison but makes good bread - taken at Baranquilla 1726. Mount bears number: "92"

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Wellcome Collection 11918i

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Thomas Malie (Mallie, Malié) was Surgeon-General to H.M. Forces in the West Indies: see obituary in The gentleman's magazine, 1789, vol. 59, pt. 1, p. 467

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