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  • 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.
  • El nuevo y mejorado Elíxir Cofrón 12 : (hierro, cobre, vitamina B12 y factores hepáticos, Abott) / Abbott Laboratories del Perú, S.A.
  • Russel, His elixirated spirit of scurvy ...
  • Müllern Sie Ihr Haar! : aber nur mit Doktor Müller's Haarwuchs-Elixier : das garantiert sichere Mittel gegen Haarschwund, Haarausfall u. Kopfschuppen... keine Glatze mehr / Dr. Müller.
  • Chinese woodcut: Alchemical refining furnace
  • A group of physicians stand by a cow that has died while 'aborting' a man; perhaps representing the potential effect of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • Ming Chinese prescription book, first page
  • C15 Chinese prescription book
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (9)
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (15
  • A juniper liqueur label illustrated with sprigs of juniper (Juniperus communis). Engraving, 19th century.
  • A woman riding a horse uses a bottle of China-Rossi tonic as a whip. Colour lithograph by RB (?), 19--.
  • Summer is icumen in... : 'B.W. & Co.' Antihistamines for hay-fever.
  • Summer is icumen in... : 'B.W. & Co.' Antihistamines for hay-fever.
  • Summer is icumen in... : 'B.W. & Co.' Antihistamines for hay-fever.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with a French liquor shop interior. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • Asthma and bronchitis treatment.
  • Five designs for toothpaste powder labels for a French pharmacist, Bataille. Line engraving.
  • Eldridge. Line engraving after T. Hillyard.
  • Eldridge. Line engraving after T. Hillyard.
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (12)
  • Yao Shang, Chinese sage, wearing traditional costume and holding a medicine container (?). Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • A chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Etching by R. Clee, ca. 1750, after J. de Lajoue, ca. 1735.
  • A chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Etching by R. Clee, ca. 1750, after J. de Lajoue, ca. 1735.
  • A chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Etching by R. Clee, ca. 1750, after J. de Lajoue, ca. 1735.
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (11)
  • Anterior and posterior whole-body acu-moxa charts, Chinese
  • World War I: the Kaiser as a chemist trying to dissolve the Allies but finding that his solvents do not work. Ink drawing by J. Walker, 1916.