Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
Date:
[1847]
Reference:
23824i
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Description

Nux-vomica is the commercial source of strychnine which is extracted from the seeds

Publication/Creation

[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1847]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Lettering

Strychnos Nux-vomica

References note

Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1847

Reference

Wellcome Collection 23824i

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