Cinchona bark specimens

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Cinchona bark specimens from the Economic Botany Collection, RBG Kew. Cinchona bark and its derived quinine alkaloids were the most effective treatment for malaria from the 17th century to the 1940s. As a medicinal herb, cinchona bark is also known as Jesuit's bark or Peruvian bark
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Media ID 11687677
Date: 13th July 2005
Job Title: Photographer
Sub Location: Kew Gardens
City: Richmond
County: Surrey
Author: Andrew McRobb
Filename: EBC_52683_52938_52925_050713AM001.jpg
Image Size: 3024 x 2016 Pixels
Filesize is 4.32MB
Keywords: alkaloids, bark, cinchona, economic botany, jesuits bark, medicinal, medicine, peruvian bark, quinine, rbg kew, rubiaceae, specimen