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  • Safe sedation 'Distaval' 25 mg. thalidomide per tablet... : 'Distaval' Forte 100 mg. thalidomide per tablet ... sounder sleep / The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Limited.
  • Safe sedation 'Distaval' 25 mg. thalidomide per tablet... : 'Distaval' Forte 100 mg. thalidomide per tablet ... sounder sleep / The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Limited.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Chemistry: distilling apparatus. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
  • Dr. Normandy's water-distilling apparatus, at Aden. Wood engraving.
  • Distilling oven, Liber de art distillandi de compositis, 1500
  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
  • Richard Burdon Haldane as an alchemist using bellows, representing his eloquence, to distil a new military unit from three older units. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1907.
  • Theo Heemskerk as an alchemist trying in vain to distill a report from members of a commission set up to reform the constitution of the Netherlands. Line block after J. Braakensiek, 1912.
  • A Chinese (?) man working with distilling apparatus. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
  • Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • A large chemical laboratory filled with distilling apparatus and many types of glass vessel. Engraving, 177-.
  • Interior of a distilling laboratory with five people at work. Coloured engraving by M. Engelbrecht's workshop, c. 1720.
  • The chemical laboratory of Ambrose Godfrey: : the distilling room. Etching attributed to W.H. Toms after H. Gravelot.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont [pseud.? i. e. Girolamo Ruscelli?] Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approved, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition / Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde.
  • A woman representing pharmacy receives gifts of materia medica from vegetable and mineral sources, and with the aid of a herbal distils them into medicines; above, Apollo gives authority to Hippocrates as other Olympians stand outside the temple of Aesculapius. Etching by R. de Hooghe.
  • "Take it on sugar" : Faulding's "Emu" brand eucalyptus oil : "The spirit of the tree" / distilled by F.H. Faulding & Co. Ltd.
  • St. John's Island, Singapore: the Quarantine Station, showing the jetty, goods shed and distilling plant; small islands in the background. Photograph by A. R. Wellington, 1909.
  • Laboratory and library of an apothecary - physician, showing books on shelves, drug jars, distilling, etc. and the proprietor examining a flask; below, verses in German.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.