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Improvements in water-heating, distilling and sterilizing apparatus / [James McCartney].
McCartney, James.Date: 1900- Pictures
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Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
Date: 1660Reference: 25005i- Pictures
A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.
Reference: 36178i- Pictures
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A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1833Reference: 26475i- Pictures
Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
Reference: 35429i- Pictures
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A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
Muys, Jan, 1656-after 1699.Date: 1686Reference: 26003i- Archives and manuscripts
M. (M.A.C.)
M. (M.A.C.)Date: 1612 -1622Reference: MS.456- Pictures
An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 7 May 1750 :Reference: 35503i- Books
Dhanvantari : br̥hadvaidyakagrantha / Lālāśāligrāmasaṅkalita aura Hindībhāṣānuvādavibhūshita.
Vaiśya, Śāligrāma.Date: 1907- Archives and manuscripts
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Alchemy: 15th cent.
Date: Late 15th centuryReference: MS.22- Archives and manuscripts
Roger, Colonel (fl. 1845)
Date: 1845Reference: MS.7548/13-22Part of: Miscellaneous: French, 19th-20th centuries- Pictures
Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i- Pictures
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Chemistry: vessels for heating with furnaces, including apparatus for bathing, making beer, making vinegar, etc. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: 1763Reference: 47820i- Pictures
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Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
Larmessin, Nicolas de.Reference: 44562i- Archives and manuscripts
Choppin, William
Choppin, WilliamDate: 1781Reference: MS.1632- Pictures
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Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work; the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
Date: December 1747Reference: 16047i- Books
A compleat course of chymistry containing not only the best chymical medicines but also great variety of useful observations. / By George Wilson, Chymist.
Wilson, George, 1631 or 1632-Date: 1709- Books
Pursuing knowledge : scientific instruments, manuscripts and prints from Istanbul University collections = Bilginin izinde : İstanbul Üniversitesi koleksiyonlarından bilimsel aletler, yazmalar, baskılar / editor, Feza Günergun.
Date: [2016]- Pictures
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An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.Reference: 17512i- Pictures
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The pharmacy of J. Cassel, founded in 1683 at 4 Rue de la Barre, Dieppe: detail of the timpanum above the entrance. Photograph.
Reference: 36291i- Pictures
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The front of the pharmacy of J. Cassel, founded in 1683 at 4 Rue de la Barre, Dieppe. Photograph.
Reference: 36289i- Archives and manuscripts
(Anon.)
Date: c. 1720Reference: MS.3574/38Part of: Miscellanea Alchemica XXXIX- Archives and manuscripts
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Receipt-Book, Italian: 18th century
Date: Late 18th centuryReference: MS.4111- Pictures
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The front of the pharmacy of J. Cassel, founded in 1683 at 4 Rue de la Barre, Dieppe. Photograph.
Reference: 36290i- Books
Hermetis, Aegyptiorum, et chemicorum sapientia ab Hermanni Conringii animadversionibus vindicata ... / [Oluf Borch].
Borch, Ole, 1626-1690Date: 1674