Medicine bottles
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Britannia as a patient who is in danger of death owing to disagreement between her three doctors over their competing remedies; representing the weakness of Britain during the replacement of Addington by Pitt as Prime Minister and the exclusion of Fox. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804.
James GillrayDate: 20 May 1804Reference: 12194i
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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: pharmacy shop. Steel engraving.
Reference: 20201i
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A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
Reference: 24101i
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An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.
Henry Stacy MarksDate: 8 July 1876Reference: 16363i
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A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.
Dietrich Wilhelm LindauDate: [1834?]Reference: 659102i