M0001707: Reproduction of the title page from Della natura, effetti, ed'uso della corteccia del Perù, o' sia china china, considerazioni fisico-mecaniche, e mediche by Carlo Francesco Cogrossi, 1711

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Title page, China China.

Reproduction of the title page from Cogrossi, Carlo Francesco (1682-1769): Della natura, effetti, ed'uso della corteccia del Perù, o' sia china china, considerazioni fisico-mecaniche, e mediche Crema : M. Carcheno, 1711. The label "189" at the bottom of the image suggests that the reproduction is from a printed book lent by the Medical Society of London for Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, an exhibition hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The printed book is listed as exhibit no. 189 in the souvenir catalogue.

24 March 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition cataloguewhich this item was exhibited in. There is a similar copy of the original text held by Wellcome Collection: EPB/B/18242

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.