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  • Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.
  • Process of washing and extracting iron ore. Etching, 17--.
  • Plan of a salt-marsh and instruments used in the process of salt extraction. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • The interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals and industrial cityscape. Colour process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.
  • A dentist telling off his black assistant for not extracting a tooth, the assistant retorts that instead of the tooth he got the patients's watch and pocket book. Process print after G.E. Studdy.
  • A dentist telling off his black assistant for not extracting a tooth, the assistant retorts that instead of the tooth he got the patients's watch and pocket book. Process print after G.E. Studdy.
  • Plantago major (Greater plantain). Shows basal rosettes of long stalked ovate leaves and tall flower spikes. The aqueous extracts have been used a great deal in the cosmetic industry. Crushed plaintain has also been used to stop bleeding in wound management. The stems and seeds have been used as cage-bird food; the distilled water as an eye lotion, and the tincture in home-made dental remedies.
  • Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Colonie préhistorique et commerce de sel a Hallstadt (Haute Autriche) / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Colonie préhistorique et commerce de sel a Hallstadt (Haute Autriche) / Compagnie Liebig.
  • Colibil Guerin (granulado) / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • Colibil Guerin (granulado) / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • 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.
  • As a nerve-sedative : Valerian-Dispert : a valerian concentrate without odour and taste.
  • Infecciones intestinales, Vioftalyl ... : Coligène : colagogo a hidrocolerético poderoso, complementado con los fermentos pancreáticos esenciales para una normal digestión intestinal / Andre Bigaux, S.A.
  • Infecciones intestinales, Vioftalyl ... : Coligène : colagogo a hidrocolerético poderoso, complementado con los fermentos pancreáticos esenciales para una normal digestión intestinal / Andre Bigaux, S.A.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Especialidades Nadeau : calidad responsibilidad resultados : Pepandrine ... Calcipan ... Valaubel ... Glytapod ... Mecosal ... / Ethical Products, S.A.
  • Especialidades Nadeau : calidad responsibilidad resultados : Pepandrine ... Calcipan ... Valaubel ... Glytapod ... Mecosal ... / Ethical Products, S.A.
  • Especialidades Nadeau : calidad responsibilidad resultados : Pepandrine ... Calcipan ... Valaubel ... Glytapod ... Mecosal ... / Ethical Products, S.A.
  • Especialidades Nadeau : calidad responsibilidad resultados : Pepandrine ... Calcipan ... Valaubel ... Glytapod ... Mecosal ... / Ethical Products, S.A.
  • Especialidades Nadeau : calidad responsibilidad resultados : Pepandrine ... Calcipan ... Valaubel ... Glytapod ... Mecosal ... / Ethical Products, S.A.
  • Especialidades Nadeau : calidad responsibilidad resultados : Pepandrine ... Calcipan ... Valaubel ... Glytapod ... Mecosal ... / Ethical Products, S.A.
  • Castanea sativa (Sweet or Spanish chestnut)
  • SEM Aspergillus mould producing spores (conidia)
  • Melissa officinalis (Lemon balm)
  • Vanillin crystals, LM