Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
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[1839-42]
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23804i
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Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bark, known as Jesuit's bark, from the cinchona tree yields quinine, a powerful antimalarial drug

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[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1839-42]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Cinchona condaminea

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Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1839-42

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Wellcome Collection 23804i

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