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Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

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  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • An excited physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis, two assistants are mixing concoctions in the background. Mezzotint by J.B. Enzensberger after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Misunderstanding between a doctor and his working-class patient, who has swallowed the leeches he prescribed. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1877.
  • A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.
  • Six scenes narrating the fuss caused by a man's progression from minor cold to supposed major illness and then sudden recovery. Etching by J. Lisle after himself.
  • A Scottish shepherd telling a doctor on the roadside about the death of his wife and how glad he is that he didn't take any of the medicine the doctor had prescribed for his wife. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.
  • A physician talking to a patient about his illness, the patient is holding a basket containing a urine flask. Engraving.
  • An invalid with bandaged arm and head. Coloured aquatint.
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106 works

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    Zhongguo gu dai fang shis yang sheng ji yao / Song Shugong.

    | Date: 1991
    • Books

    Every man his own physician : being, a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body ... / by John Theobald.

    Theobald, John, -1760 | Date: 1764
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    Pharmacopœia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a complete English dispensatory, in four parts : to which is added, An account of the common adulterations both of simples and compounds, with some marks to detect them / by John Quincy.

    John Quincy | Date: 1736
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    Chieh tu p'ien / [by] Wang Chi.

    Wang, Chi, 1791-1801. | Date: 1988
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    Pharmacopœia of the Seamen's Hospital Society ("Dreadnought").

    Seafarers Hospital Society | Date: 1910
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Related topics

Materia Medica
Physicians
Materia medica
Medicine - Early works to 1800
Pharmacopoeia
Advertising - Medicine
Physician and patient
Pharmacists
Advertising - Drugs
Pestles

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