METHUSELAH ARCHIVE SOURCES / WELLCOME-CHINESE-RHUBARB-BURNETT-1842

Chinese or Turkish rhubarb (Rheum palmatum): flowering and fruiting stem with leaf

period print · 1842
type:period print
year:1842
citation:Chinese or Turkish rhubarb (Rheum palmatum): flowering and fruiting stem with leaf. Coloured zincograph after Mary Ann Burnett, circa 1842. Wellcome Collection work ea8vktkk, image V0043961. Public Domain Mark.
LINK
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ea8vktkk
SUMMARY
Wellcome Collection catalogue record for a coloured zincograph of Rheum palmatum after Mary Ann Burnett, dated circa 1842. The institutional record identifies the plant and marks the image Public Domain. Used as an artifact-role illustration of Chinese rhubarb, one of the four ingredients named in the NCI and Memorial Sloan Kettering Essiac summaries.
NOTES

An 1842 botanical plate of Chinese rhubarb held and digitized by Wellcome Collection under the Public Domain Mark. It illustrates the plant rather than any claimed anticancer action.