M0001682: Illustration of lignum febrium or tree of fevers

Date:: 16 March 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/15/77

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001603-M0001706WT/D/1/20/1/15
        M0001682: Illustration of lignum febrium or tree of feversWT/D/1/20/1/15/77

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M0001682: Illustration of lignum febrium or tree of fevers. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Fever tree.

Description

Black and white reproduction of an illustration of lignum febrium or fever tree, which illustrates an elaborate taxonomy of fevers in order to explain which ones could be cured by the use of the cinchona bark. The reproduction is from Torti, Francesco (1658-1741): Therapeutice specialis ad febres periodicas perniciosas… Mutinæ : Typis B. Soliani, 1712. Related images: L0017844, L0025278, L0022898

Publication/Creation

16 March 1931

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative:EPB/B/51772

Notes

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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