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Pharmacists

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Images

  • Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.
  • The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a pharmacist for a remedy; the pharmacist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers, with fatal results. Line block.
  • Peel about to force-feed a large tablet to John Bull in an apothecaries shop; representing England at the hands of the politicians. Lithograph by H. Heath.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin II.
  • Ekins pharmacy, Melbourne, Victoria: the shop seen from the street, with the pharmacist and his family standing outside. Photograph by E.C. Waddington, ca. 1883/1884.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin II.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Burroughs, Silas Mainville

    Burroughs, Silas Mainville (1846-1895). Manufacturing chemist and co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome & Co | Date: Mid 19th Century-Late 20th Century | Reference: PP/SMB
    • Books

    Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter / by Margery Rowe and G.E. Trease.

    Rowe, Margery. | Date: 1970
    • Books

    A Philadelphia "pharmaceutist" in the old West - William Barker Chapman (1813-1874) / by Glenn Sonnedecker.

    Sonnedecker, Glenn, 1917- | Date: 1954
    • Books

    Apotheker Dr Alfred Silber aus Reutlingen / von Armin Wankmüller.

    Wankmüller, Armin | Date: 1983
  • view An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.
    • Pictures

    An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.

    Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 | Date: 8 July 1876 | Reference: 16363i
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