TY - CHAP DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - Plate 11: Red and pale cinchona bark T2 - A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica ID - 2n49t300s AU - Wills, George S. V. PB - Marshall Simpkin CY - London, England DA - 1886/// YR - 1886 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/2n49t300s AB - Illustrations printed in color. Illustration No. 108 is Cinchonae rubrae cortex or red cinchona bark. Illustration No. 110 is Cinchonae pallidae cortex or pale cinchona bark. This manual identifies plants used for medicinal purposes. The focus is on plants that can be acquired through commerce in Britain and are illustrated as they would have been imported and bought, for example the opium is illustrated as a processed capsule wrapped in a poppy leaf instead of the poppy plant itself. Authored by George Sampson Valentine Wills (1849-1932). Wills was the founder and Director of the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy in London. The school was established to train druggists for examinations by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the regulating body established in 1841. KW - Botany, Medical KW - Medicinal plants KW - Materia medica, Vegetable KW - Cinchona--Therapeutic use LA - English ER -