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Tailby-Nason's Mentho-Terpenol Pain Reliever
- After 1880 – before 1970
Blue glass bottle, stained by residue from its contents, with metal screw cap lid and white paper label. The topical ointment once held in this bottle was intended for pain relief. According to the label, the ointment…
- Creator Of Work Tailby-Nason Company
- Subject Analgesics, Drugs, Quacks and quackery, Tailby-Nason Company
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Hanson's Magic Corn Salve
- After 1884 – before 1925
Small orange box containing a topical rub intended to treat corns, bunions, and warts.
Willis Tracy Hanson, Sr. (1858-1933) was a New York businessman known for selling patent medicines. These remedies could be…
- Manufacturer W.T. Hanson Co.
- Subject Drugs, W.T. Hanson Co., Quacks and quackery, Pharmaceutical industry, Warts, Bunion
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Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to Plants Indigenous to and Naturalized in the United States, Volume II
- 1892
Second of two volumes detailing a variety of plant species and their medicinal properties. The works contain 180 chromolithographic plates, originally drawn and hand-colored by the author. The illustrations depict the…
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Lydia E. Pinkham Menstrual Relief Tablets
- After 1882 – before 1968
Lydia E. Pinkham brand menstrual pain relief tablets, containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Glycyrrhiza (Licorice), and Ferrous Sulfate.
Lydia E. Pinkham, née…
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Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to Plants Indigenous to and Naturalized in the United States, Volume I
- 1892
First of two volumes detailing a variety of plant species and their medicinal properties. The works contain 180 chromolithographic plates, originally drawn and hand-colored by the author. The illustrations depict the…
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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, August 1893
- 1893-Aug-19
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), a Swedish physicist, expresses gratitude to his colleague Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for a letter he received earlier. Arrhenius apologizes for the delayed response, citing recent…
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Strychnine Sulfate Tablets
- After 1870 – before 1910
Bottle of Strychnine Sulfate tablets in a brown glass bottle with cork top closure.
Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless, crystalline alkaloid used today as a pesticide for rodents or birds. When inhaled, swallowed,…
- Creator Of Work Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Strychnine, Strychnine--Toxicology, Drugs, Eli Lilly and Company
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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, November 1893
- 1893-Nov-18
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), a Swedish chemist and the Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1903, shares scientific data with his friend and colleague Georg Bredig (1868-1944).
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927
- Subject Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Nobel Prize winners
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Indigo MLB auf Baumwolle : Indigo MLB on Cotton
- After 1880 – before 1925
This sample book begins with a selection of recipes for the preparation of dye vats. Each recipe lists the solvents and solutes necessary to mix large-volume solutions of indigo textile dye using Indigo M.L.B. brand…
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Frau Ernestine Bredig
- After 1847 – before 1930
Seated black and white portrait of Frau Ernestine Bredig (1847-1930). Little is known about Bredig as an individual, except that she was the mother of physical chemist Georg Bredig (1868-1944).
- Subject Bredig, Ernestine, 1847-1930, Portraits
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Letter from Eduard Buchner to Wilhelm Ostwald, July 1892
- 1892-Jul-15
Eduard Buchner (1860-1917), a German chemist and zymologist who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation, informs Wilhelm Ostwald that he has discovered a remarkable property of…
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Measurement of Light and Colour Sensations
- A New Method Investigation the Phenomena of Light and Colour by Means of the Selective Absorption in Coloured Glass, Graded in to Scales of Equivalent Colour Value
- 1893
Joseph Williams Lovibond (1833-1918) was a British brewer who developed the first practical colorimeter. After discovering that coloration was a good index for assessing the quality of his beer, he sought an accurate…
- Author Lovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams), 1835-1918
- Publisher G. Gill
- Subject Light, Colors, Spectrum analysis, Colorimetry
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A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day
- For the Use of Schools and Young Persons
- 1894
Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This fifth edition of Buckley's…
- Author Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929
- Publisher E. Standford
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929, Historians of science, Women in science, Science, Medieval, Science, Ancient, Science--Study and teaching (Elementary), Natural history
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Michael Faraday : Man of Science
- After 1865 – before 1929
A biographical account of the life and accomplishments of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Digitized content includes the work's…
- Author Jerrold, Walter, 1865-1929
- Publisher Fleming H. Revell
- Subject Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Physicists, Lectures and lecturing, Electromagnetism, Electrochemistry
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Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical and Physical Apparatus and Assay Goods, Manufactured and Imported by Richards & Co., Limited.
- 1890s
A three-part catalog of chemical supplies and laboratory apparatus sold by Richards & Co., Limited. The first part lists general laboratory supplies, the second includes specific analytical and physio-chemical…
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Kipp's Apparatus
- Circa 1880 – 1920
A Kipp's apparatus, also called a Kipp generator, was an instrument designed for the preparation of small volumes of gases. The instrument was invented around 1844 by the Dutch pharmacist Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808-1864)…
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Georg Bredig's chemistry notes on an experiment
- After 1890 – before 1930
Notes on a scientific experiment conducted by Georg Bredig (1868-1944) including results from an internship in inorganic chemistry.
- Author Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Chemistry, Inorganic, Note-taking, Chemistry
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Georg Bredig and colleagues
- 1894
Black and white photograph of Georg Bredig (1868-1944) pictured standing on the left of his colleauges in Amsterdam.
Georg Bredig was a German physical chemist known for his work with catalysts, reaction kinetics,…
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Letter from Jacobus H. van 't Hoff to Georg Bredig, December 1894
- 1894-Dec-22
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff (1852-1911) suggests that Georg Bredig (1868-1944) conduct a distillation experiment using a solution of two liquids with very different molecular weights.
Van't Hoff is considered to be…
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Postcard from Jacobus van 't Hoff to Georg Bredig, March 1894
- 1894-Mar-21
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff (1852-1911) writes to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) about working in his (van't Hoff's) laboratory.
Van't Hoff is considered to be one of the founding fathers of physical chemistry. In 1901…
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Jacobus van't Hoff's laboratory at the University of Amsterdam
- 1894
Sepia-toned photograph showing an exterior view of the chemical laboratory building at the University of Amsterdam. The annotation beneath the photograph indicates that at the time of capture, Jacobus van't Hoff's…
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Herinnering aan De Herdenking van Lavoisier
- Memory of The Commemoration of Lavoisier
- 1894-May-08
Cover to an article commemorating Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), who is widely considered the father of modern chemistry.
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Letter from Jacobus H. van 't Hoff to Georg Bredig, December 1894
- 1894-Dec
Jacobus van't Hoff (1852-1911) updates his colleague, Georg Bredig (1868-1944), on calculations for a recent lecture on temperature coefficients.
- Author Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
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Portrait of Louis Pasteur
- Circa 1894
- Engraver Champollion, Eugène-André Champollion
- Publisher Musée du Louvre
- Subject Microbiologists, Chemists, Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895
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Georg Bredig's doctoral diploma
- 1894
Diploma granting Georg Bredig (1868-1944) a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Leipzig. Bredig began studying physical chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1889. He earned his doctorate in 1894.
- Creator Of Work Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Diplomas, Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)
