13 results filtered with: Elixir of life
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Aeson is rejuvenated by having his blood replaced by magic juices in a boiling vat; representing the process of self-destruction in order to attain the elixir of life. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs after Salomon Trismosin.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38811i- Books
The secret of everlasting life : the first translation of the ancient Chinese text on immortality / Richard Bertschinger.
Bertschinger, RichardDate: [1994]- Archives and manuscripts
English Alchemical Notebook, early 17th century
Date: early 17th centuryReference: MS.7095
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An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
Hablot Knight BrowneDate: [1865]Reference: 37582i
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A group of physicians stand by a cow that has died while 'aborting' a man; perhaps representing the potential effect of vaccination. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16150i
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Dell'elixir vitae / di frà Donato d'Eremita di Rocca d'Euandro dell'ord. de pred. : libri quattro.
Donato d'EremitaDate: 1624- Books
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Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus discovering the ancient foundation of the late viperine salt : with his Clavis thereunto annexed translated by J.W.
Otto TacheniusDate: 1690- Archives and manuscripts
Juvenalis
JuvenalisDate: Late 15th centuryReference: MS.392- Archives and manuscripts
Compendium of alchemical tracts
Date: Mid 17th CenturyReference: MS.388- Archives and manuscripts
Johann Gerlach
Gerlach, Johann, fl.c.1575Date: 1572-1576Reference: MS.309
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An alchemist standing before a board illustrated with diagrams, lecturing to a crowd on the elixir of life. Wood engraving, 1852-3, after D. Scott.
David ScottDate: 1852-3Reference: 37576i- Books
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Otto Tachenius his clavis to the ancient hippocratical physick or medicine : made by manual experience in the very fountains of nature, whereby through fire and water, in a method unheard of before, the occult mysteries of nature and art are unlocked and clearly explained by a compendious way of operation.
Otto TacheniusDate: 1677- Books
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Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus, which discovers the ancient foundations of the late viperine salt : and his clavis thereunto / translated into English by J.W.
Otto TacheniusDate: 1677