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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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Creator Teniers, David, 1610-1690 ✖Remove constraint Creator: Teniers, David, 1610-1690 Format Physical Object ✖Remove constraint Format: Physical Object Subject Alchemy in art ✖Remove constraint Subject: Alchemy in art Date 1850 to 1854 ✖Remove constraint Date: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1850">1850</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1854">1854</span>

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    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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