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  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Deficiency-putrefaction laryngitis
  • Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection / by John Tyndall.
  • A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Further researches on the deportment and vital persistence of putrefactive and infective organisms from a physical point of view / by John Tyndall.
  • A man holding his nose to avoid breathing in a miasma. Drawing.
  • A man holding his nose to avoid breathing in a miasma. Drawing.
  • A man holding his nose to avoid breathing in a miasma. Drawing.
  • A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape where a winged woman is waiting for him with a red garment; representing the transformations of the alchemical work from corruption to perfection. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.