Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10882

    Cinchona compounds

    Date
    1857
    Creator
    William Bird Herapath (1820 - 1868, British) , Physician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 327mm
    width (painting): 209mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Microscope studies of crystalline compounds derived from cinchona, including ‘acetate of cinchona’, viewed in polarised and other light.

    Plate 3 figures 15-19 (one figure is blank) for the author’s study of the optical and chemical characteristics of ‘the iodo-sulphates of the cinchona alkaloids’, including quinine.

    Unpublished illustrations from the manuscript version of the paper “Researches on the Cinchona alkaloids, part II” by William Bird Herapath, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.9 (1857-1859), pp.10-22.

    Not signed.

    William Bird Herapath (1820-1868) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.
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