M0001819: Reproduction of a photograph of a dried calabash vessel containing a concentrated extract of "quina" or cinchona

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Concentrated extract of Cinchona contained in a calabash.

Black and white reproduction of a photograph of a dried calabash vessel containing a concentrated extract of "quina" or cinchona. The item was lent by the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Paris, and exhibited in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The photograph or specimen is listed as no. 1054 in the souvenir catalogue.

31 March 1931

3 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm sheet film negative; 12.5 x 10 cm photographic print; 11.8 x 8.4 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in

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.