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AS a nation we are much less inclined than some of our Continental neighbours to celebrate historical events. It is therefore somewhat surprising to find that the tercentenary of the introduction of cinchona bark into European medicine (see NATURE, Nov. 29, p. 850) is being commemorated in London. Dr. H. S. Wellcome, whose interest in everything that pertains to the history or the progress of medicine is well known, has arranged at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 54 Wigmore Street, London, W.I, an extremely interesting exhibition of materials, manuscripts, and literature relating to this drug. The Museum itself is rich in specimens of cinchona bark of historic interest, and possesses many rare documents and books on the subject, as well as pictures of personalities who have achieved fame as explorers of the Peruvian cinchona forests, of. whom Dr. Wellcome is himself an example. To this nucleus has been added for this occasion gifts and loans from governments, learned societies, and institutions in various parts of the world, with the result that never before has such a collection of material for the study of cinchona been gathered together. The exhibition will continue open for several weeks.
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The Tercentenary of Cinchona in Medicine. Nature 126, 975 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126975a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126975a0