The Medical Alchemist

• 18th century
• Franz Christoph Janneck, Austrian
• 12.5 x 9 in.
  Oil on copper
• On display in Transmutations
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.275
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A physician wearing the traditional physician's cap conducts a urinoscopy. A woman is seated beside him, waiting for the results. In the foreground the alchemist's assistant is tending to a furnace with a distillation in progress. On the floor is a mortar and pestle, books, glassware, and a manuscript with alchemical symbols.