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Concept

Putrefaction

Images

  • A man holding his nose to avoid breathing in a miasma. Drawing.
  • A man holding his nose to avoid breathing in a miasma. Drawing.
  • A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape where a winged woman is waiting for him with a red garment; representing the transformations of the alchemical work from corruption to perfection. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
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Catalogue

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    Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

    Plowden, Francis. | Date: 1855
    • Books
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    Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii, Med. Doctoris, Consiliarii ... Pharmaciae acroamaticae disputatio III. De putrefactione, fermentatione et destillatione, eodem praeside / publicae disquisitioni subjecta à Daniele Boesio, ... ad diem Septemb. M DC LXXXV.

    Wedel, Georg Wolffgang, 1645-1721. | Date: [1685]
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    Digressio de putredine de uerbo ad uerbum exscripta ex commento / Excellentissimi doctoris Mariani Sancti Barolitani super foen tertia quarti libri Avicennae scripto.

    Santo, Mariano, 1488- | Date: [pref. 1535]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Saxonia, Hercules (1551-1607) (& others)

    Saxonia, Hercules (1551-1607) | Date: 1601 | Reference: MS.729
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    Further observations on the temperature at which bacteria, vibriones, and their supposed germs are killed when immersed in fluids or exposed to heat in a moist state : and on the causes of putrefaction and fermentation / by H. Charlton Bastian, M.A.

    Bastian, H. Charlton. | Date: [1873], [©1873]
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