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Concept

Rejuvenation

Images

  • Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe / par Serge Voronoff.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • Medea draining the blood of Aeson in order to rejuvenate him with her special brew. Engraving.
  • Aeson is rejuvenated by having his blood replaced by magic juices in a boiling vat; representing the process of self-destruction in order to attain the elixir of life. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs after Salomon Trismosin.
  • Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe / par Serge Voronoff.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe / par Serge Voronoff.
  • Old men and women activating and going through a rejuvenating machine. Engraving, 17--.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe / par Serge Voronoff.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Rejuvenation by grafting / by Dr. Serge Voronoff ; translation edited by Fred. F. Imianitoff.

    Voronoff, Serge, 1866-1951. | Date: [1925]
    • Pictures
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    Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

    Boilard, active approximately 1720. | Reference: 20262i
    • Pictures

    Faust transformed into a young man by a magic potion supplied by a witch at the behest of Mephistopheles. Coloured etching.

    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 46994i
    • Books

    Essais optimistes / par Elie Metchnikoff.

    Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916. | Date: 1907
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    Third note on effects of injecting testicular liquid / C.E. Brown-Séquard.

    Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894. | Date: 1977
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