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An account of some remarkable discoveries in the production of artificial cold : with experiments on the congelation of quicksilver in England ; likewise, observations on the best methods of producing artificial cold, and their application to useful purposes in hot climates ... / by Richard Walker.
Walker, Richard (Apothecary)Date: 1796
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Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
Reference: 38032i
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Nottice sur quelques plantes médicinales. Followed by a collection of medical and miscellaneous receipts: in French
Date: c. 1785-1795Reference: MS.3697
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Thermometrum magnum, or, Grand standard thermometer : expressing all degrees of heat and cold, from that with which mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reaumur, for comparing observations made in every part of the globe, and in all degrees of temperature in the air, or any other bodies. The whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a large copper-plate / by Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1772
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Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
Reference: 18136i
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Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
Reference: 38186i
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Researches into the action of mercury, podophylline, and taraxacum on the biliary secretion : being the report of the Edinburgh Committee of the British Medical Association / by John Hughes Bennett, chairman and reporter.
British Medical Association. Edinburgh Committee.Date: 1869
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Tentamen medicum inaugurale quasdam observationes experimentaque de vi tabis variolosae, in stadiis morbi diversis; et de usu mercurii ad morbum mitigandum, comprehendens ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Langslow.
Langslow, Richard.Date: 1791
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Processing of mercury. Etching.
Date: 1769Reference: 30516i
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Specification of John Howard Kyan : preserving vegetable substances.
Kyan, John Howard, 1774-1850.Date: 1855
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Baldanzi, Amedeo
Baldanzi, AmedeoDate: 1737-1766Reference: MS.1041
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Avertissement aux astronomes sur le passage de mercure au devant du soleil, qui doit arriver le 6 mai 1753. : Avec une mappemonde, où l'on voit les nouvelles découvertes fait au nord de la Mer du sud ... / Par M. de L'Isle.
L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de, 1688-1768.Date: M.DCC.LIII
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Chemistry: eutectic apparatus (top), gas glassware (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
Lascelles, Henry, active 1800.Date: 9 March 1801Reference: 47599i
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Memoria sobre el modo de hacer y administrar el subnitrate de mercurio, o pildora de Ugarte / escrita por José Antonio Bernal Muñoz ... Impresa el año de 1829.
Bernal Muñoz, José Antonio, 1776-1853.Date: 1839
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Theodr. Petri Caelsi Ratio occurrendi morbis a mineralium abusu produci solitis : Accedit Lucas Dorascentius De usu chalybis atque mercurii in obstructione curanda.
Caels, Théodoric Pierre, 1739-1819.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII
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Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences, : tenuë dans la grand sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le 12 Mai 1740.
Société royale des sciences (Montpellier, France)Date: M.DCC.XL
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Physiologisch-chemische Untersuchungen / von Karl Voit. 1. Heft.
Voit, C. von, 1831-1908.Date: 1857
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An enthroned king, wearing three crowns and with a sword in his mouth, having vanquished a green seven headed hydra; an archangel with a key imprisons Lucifer in chains by a roaring fire; representing the culmination of the alchemical process and the sublimation of base matter. Coloured etching after an etching, ca. 17th century.
Reference: 38502i
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Mirrors: a work table and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 43406i
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Observationes medicae ... / Joannis a Bona ... ; ad praxim in Nosocomio ostendendam anno MDCCLXV : praemissa oratione prima in gymnasio habet : et, mantissae loco, addita historia aliquot curationum mercurio sublimato corrodenti perfectarum, olim edita.
Dalla Bona, Giovanni, 1712-1786.Date: 1766
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A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
Reference: 18139i
Part of: Hygeian illustration
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Rasārṇavakalpa = Manifold powers of the ocean of rasa / text edited and translated into English by Mira Roy, in collaboration with B.V. Subbarayappa.
Date: 1976

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An account of some remarkable discoveries in the production of artificial cold : with experiments on the congelation of quicksilver in England ; likewise, observations on the best methods of producing artificial cold, and their application to useful purposes in hot climates ... / by Richard Walker.

Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Nottice sur quelques plantes médicinales. Followed by a collection of medical and miscellaneous receipts: in French

Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Researches into the action of mercury, podophylline, and taraxacum on the biliary secretion : being the report of the Edinburgh Committee of the British Medical Association / by John Hughes Bennett, chairman and reporter.

Tentamen medicum inaugurale quasdam observationes experimentaque de vi tabis variolosae, in stadiis morbi diversis; et de usu mercurii ad morbum mitigandum, comprehendens ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Langslow.

Processing of mercury. Etching.

Specification of John Howard Kyan : preserving vegetable substances.

Baldanzi, Amedeo

Avertissement aux astronomes sur le passage de mercure au devant du soleil, qui doit arriver le 6 mai 1753. : Avec une mappemonde, où l'on voit les nouvelles découvertes fait au nord de la Mer du sud ... / Par M. de L'Isle.

Chemistry: eutectic apparatus (top), gas glassware (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Memoria sobre el modo de hacer y administrar el subnitrate de mercurio, o pildora de Ugarte / escrita por José Antonio Bernal Muñoz ... Impresa el año de 1829.

Theodr. Petri Caelsi Ratio occurrendi morbis a mineralium abusu produci solitis : Accedit Lucas Dorascentius De usu chalybis atque mercurii in obstructione curanda.

Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences, : tenuë dans la grand sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le 12 Mai 1740.

Physiologisch-chemische Untersuchungen / von Karl Voit. 1. Heft.

Mirrors: a work table and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

Observationes medicae ... / Joannis a Bona ... ; ad praxim in Nosocomio ostendendam anno MDCCLXV : praemissa oratione prima in gymnasio habet : et, mantissae loco, addita historia aliquot curationum mercurio sublimato corrodenti perfectarum, olim edita.

A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.

Rasārṇavakalpa = Manifold powers of the ocean of rasa / text edited and translated into English by Mira Roy, in collaboration with B.V. Subbarayappa.