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Mercury

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  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Processing of mercury. Etching.
  • A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
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    De l'or, de son emploi dans le traitement de la syphilis ... et ... des dartres syphilitiques; du mercure, de son inefficacité, et des dangers de l'administrer dans le traitement des mêmes maladies; avec une appréciation du traitement antiphlogistique / Par A. Legrand, d'Amiens.

    Legrand, A. (Alexandre Louis), 1799-1862. | Date: 1828
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    Sur les inconvénients du traitement mercuriel intensif dans la paraplégie spasmodique syphilitique / par E. Brissaud et Pierre Marie.

    Brissaud, Édouard, 1852-1909. | Date: 1902
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    The age of autism : mercury, medicine, and a man-made epidemic / Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill.

    Olmsted, Dan. | Date: 2010
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    Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 28 février 1838, / par Victor Guibourd, de Nozay.

    Guibourd, Victor. | Date: 1838
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    A treatise on the venereal disease / by G. Renny, surgeon to the Athol Highlanders.

    Renny, George, approximately 1760-1847. | Date: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
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