M0001747: Reproduction of the title page from Experiments on the red and quill Peruvian bark : with observations on its history, mode of operation, and uses, 1785

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Title page, Experiments on the red and quill peruvian bark.

Reproduction of the title page from Irving, Ralph: Experiments on the red and quill Peruvian bark : with observations on its history, mode of operation, and uses Edinburgh, MDCCLXXXV [1785]. The title page was possibly reproduced as as part of the printed books lent by the Royal Society of Medicine, 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. 442 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 catalogue which this item was exhibited in. Asimilar copy of the item depicted in the glass plate negative is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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