M0011625: Cinchona succirubra. Habitat Loxa.

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Cinchona Succirubra. Habitat Loxa.

Reproduction of an illustration of Cinchona succirubra from Loxa, Ecuador, then a province of Peru, where the first Cinchona bark used by Europeans was obtained. It was published in the handbook produced to accompany the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's "Cinchona Tercentenary Celebration and Exhibition" held in 1930

November 1950

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2021.

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