Cinchona compounds
Date
1857
Creator
William Bird Herapath (1820 - 1868, British) , Physician
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Dimensions
height (painting): 327mm
width (painting): 209mm
width (painting): 209mm
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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Unpublished illustrations from the manuscript version of the paper “Researches on the Cinchona alkaloids, part II” by William Bird Herapath, in Proceedings of the Royal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.
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Unpublished illustrations from the manuscript version of the paper “Researches on the Cinchona alkaloids, part II” by William Bird Herapath, in Proceedings of the Royal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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