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English Alchemical Notebook, early 17th century
Date: early 17th centuryReference: MS.7095- Books
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Otto Tachenius his clavis to the ancient hippocratical physick or medicine : made by manual experience in the very fountains of nature, whereby through fire and water, in a method unheard of before, the occult mysteries of nature and art are unlocked and clearly explained by a compendious way of operation.
Tachenius, Otto, -approximately 1670Date: 1677- Books
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Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus, which discovers the ancient foundations of the late viperine salt : and his clavis thereunto / translated into English by J.W.
Tachenius, Otto, -approximately 1670Date: 1677- Archives and manuscripts
Compendium of alchemical tracts
Date: Mid 17th CenturyReference: MS.388- Digital Images
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Ming Chinese prescription book, first page
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The secret of everlasting life : the first translation of the ancient Chinese text on immortality / Richard Bertschinger.
Bertschinger, Richard.Date: [1994]- Ephemera
Dr. Baker, name on the door (No.1) Adam-and-Eve-Court, Oxford-Street, informs the public, that he continues to dispose of his medicines, so famous for their salutary effects, at the usual prices, viz. the Anti-Venereal Elixir, at 3s per bottle; which will radically cure every symptom of the venereal disease, inveterate scurvy, rheumatism, old standing sores, and eruptions of the skin ...
Baker, Dr.Date: [1770?]- Archives and manuscripts
Johann Gerlach
Gerlach, Johann, fl.c.1575Date: 1572-1576Reference: MS.309- Archives and manuscripts
Juvenalis
JuvenalisDate: Late 15th centuryReference: MS.392- Pictures
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A group of physicians stand by a cow that has died while 'aborting' a man; perhaps representing the potential effect of vaccination. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16150i- Books
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Dell'elixir vitae / di frà Donato d'Eremita di Rocca d'Euandro dell'ord. de pred. : libri quattro.
Donato d'Eremita.Date: 1624- Books
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Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus discovering the ancient foundation of the late viperine salt : with his Clavis thereunto annexed translated by J.W.
Tachenius, Otto, -approximately 1670Date: 1690- Books
Mortal coil : a short history of living longer / David Boyd Haycock.
Haycock, David Boyd, 1968-Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Muppū kuru / āciriyar Vaittiyarattiṉam Vi. Palarāmayyā.
Palarāmayyā, Vi.Date: 1971- Books
Muppū kuru / āciriyar Vaittiyarattiṉam Vi. Palarāmayyā.
Palarāmayyā, Vi.Date: 1981- Books
Obsessions and convictions of the human intellect / by F.W. Westaway.
Westaway, F. W. (Frederic William)Date: [1938]- Books
Psychonauts : drugs and the making of the modern mind / Mike Jay.
Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14-Date: [2023]- Digital Images
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Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (9)
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Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (15
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The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire : for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.
Date: 1673- Audio
Coffee, a hellish brew. Pt. 2, Use and abuse.
Date: 1998- Books
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The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross : shewing the wonderful power of nature, with the full discovery of the true cœlum terræ, or first matter of metals, and their preparations into incredible medicines or elixirs that cure all diseases in young or old : with the regio lucis, and holy houshold of rosie crucian philosophers / communicated to the world by John Heydon, Gent.
Heydon, John, 1629-Date: 1664-65- Pictures
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Yao Shang, Chinese sage, wearing traditional costume and holding a medicine container (?). Watercolour, China, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 567597i- Books
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The philosopher's stone / by P.H. Vander Weyde.
Van der Weyde, P. H. (Peter Henri), 1813-1895.Date: 1861 [i.e. 1862]- Ephemera
Wade's medicine and mineral water warehouse : no.13, Old Bond Street (opposite Stafford Street).
Date: 1800?]