Breaking down of a body of a human or animal post-mortem

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A man holding his nose to avoid breathing in a miasma. Drawing.

A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape where a winged woman is waiting for him with a red garment; representing the transformations of the alchemical work from corruption to perfection. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii, Med. Doctoris, Consiliarii ... Pharmaciae acroamaticae disputatio III. De putrefactione, fermentatione et destillatione, eodem praeside / publicae disquisitioni subjecta à Daniele Boesio, ... ad diem Septemb. M DC LXXXV.

Digressio de putredine de uerbo ad uerbum exscripta ex commento / Excellentissimi doctoris Mariani Sancti Barolitani super foen tertia quarti libri Avicennae scripto.

Saxonia, Hercules (1551-1607) (& others)

Further observations on the temperature at which bacteria, vibriones, and their supposed germs are killed when immersed in fluids or exposed to heat in a moist state : and on the causes of putrefaction and fermentation / by H. Charlton Bastian, M.A.

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Putrefaction

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Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii, Med. Doctoris, Consiliarii ... Pharmaciae acroamaticae disputatio III. De putrefactione, fermentatione et destillatione, eodem praeside / publicae disquisitioni subjecta à Daniele Boesio, ... ad diem Septemb. M DC LXXXV.

Digressio de putredine de uerbo ad uerbum exscripta ex commento / Excellentissimi doctoris Mariani Sancti Barolitani super foen tertia quarti libri Avicennae scripto.

Saxonia, Hercules (1551-1607) (& others)

Further observations on the temperature at which bacteria, vibriones, and their supposed germs are killed when immersed in fluids or exposed to heat in a moist state : and on the causes of putrefaction and fermentation / by H. Charlton Bastian, M.A.

Putrefaction

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Images referencing Putrefaction

Works from the collections

Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii, Med. Doctoris, Consiliarii ... Pharmaciae acroamaticae disputatio III. De putrefactione, fermentatione et destillatione, eodem praeside / publicae disquisitioni subjecta à Daniele Boesio, ... ad diem Septemb. M DC LXXXV.

Digressio de putredine de uerbo ad uerbum exscripta ex commento / Excellentissimi doctoris Mariani Sancti Barolitani super foen tertia quarti libri Avicennae scripto.

Saxonia, Hercules (1551-1607) (& others)

Further observations on the temperature at which bacteria, vibriones, and their supposed germs are killed when immersed in fluids or exposed to heat in a moist state : and on the causes of putrefaction and fermentation / by H. Charlton Bastian, M.A.

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