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

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
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[1853]
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24016i
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Surinam quassia wood (Quassia amara): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Surinam quassia wood is a source of bitters, vermifuge and poison in fly-papers

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London : James Sangster & Co., [1853]

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1 print : zincograph, with watercolour

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Quassia amara Bitter quassia

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Wellcome Collection 24016i

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