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Fumigation

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Images about Fumigation

5 images from works
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A physician examining a urine flask of a scantily dressed attractive woman who is in bed surrounded by her mother, lover and servant. Engraving by A.F. David after J.B. Leprince.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.

Works from the collections

7 works

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    Specification of Marc Antoine François Mannons : fumigating apparatus.

    Mennons, Marc Antoine François. | Date: 1858
    • Books

    The utility and importance of fumigating baths illustrated, or, A series of facts and remarks, shewing the origin, progress, and final establishment, (by order of the French government,) of the practice of fumigations for the cure of various diseases of the joints, paralytic affections, gout, rheumatism, bilious and nervous disorders, all complaints of long standing, and diseases of the skin. / By Jonathan Green.

    Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864. | Date: 1823
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    Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.

    Ward, Edward Matthew, 1816-1879. | Date: 1848 | Reference: 6425i
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    To kill bedbugs William Tell uses a crossbow, but he should be using Hahnelyn Gas to kill them by fumigation. Colour lithograph, 190- (?).

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1909?] | Reference: 583290i
    • Books

    Vulcan-O : the electric fumigator / Vulcan Fumigator Co. Ltd.

    Vulcan Fumigator Co. | Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]

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