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  Engravings, Prints, Portraits

  Paracelse

  • After 1800 – before 1840

  This profile portrait claims to provide a likeness of Paracelsus, the famed Swiss-German physician, botanist, and alchemist. A champion of chemical medicines, Paracelsus criticized established medical institutions for…

  • Artist Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841
  • Subject Alchemists, Paracelsus, 1493-1541
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  Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

  Can of Langlebert's Psyllium Seeds

  • 1800s

  Gold painted metal can and lid both with extensive dark blue lettering and decoration.The main label reads "LANGLEBERT'S PSYLLIUM SEEDS." The can is full of small brown psyllium seeds, a source of soluble dietary fiber.

  • Manufacturer Ad. [Adolphe] Langlebert
  • Subject Plantago psyllium, Psyllium products, Psyllium (Plants), Laxatives, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Medicine bottles, Victorian, Ad. [Adolphe] Langlebert
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  Paintings

  Surgeon operating on a man's foot

  • At the Alchemist

  • Circa 1820 – circa 1870

  In a small workshop a medical alchemist tends to the foot of a seated patient while the man's wife and child look on. At left, an assistant grinds a substance--likely a medicine or salve--in a small mortar and pestle.…

  • After Teniers, David, 1610-1690
  • Subject Medicine and art, Medicine, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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  Personal correspondence

  Letter from Charles Hatchett to Edward Blakely

  • 1831-Nov-14

  Thank-you note for Blakely's birthday gift of "a most elegant reticule" for Hatchett's wife.

  • Addressee Blakely, Edward
  • Author Hatchett, Charles, 1765?-1847
  • Subject Hatchett, Charles, 1765?-1847