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  • Hablot-Knight Browne: Elixir of Long Life. 19th C
  • Hall's Coca Wine : the elixir of life / Stephen Smith & Co. Ltd.
  • Advert for Hall's Coca Wine: The Elixir of Life, an early product that used cocaine as an ingredient.
  • An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ming Chinese prescription book, first page
  • A group of physicians stand by a cow that has died while 'aborting' a man; perhaps representing the potential effect of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Yao Shang, Chinese sage, wearing traditional costume and holding a medicine container (?). Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (9)
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (15
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (11)
  • A lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans, 17--.
  • A lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans, 17--.
  • A lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans, 17--.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.