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--.

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</p><p>Personal papers of Silas Burroughs, manufacturing chemist and co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Contains business papers, including a few letters between him and Henry Wellcome, plus letter books, writings, travel diaries, photographs and his postcard collection. Also includes the business papers of Olive Burroughs following the death of her husband, and notes on family history compiled by Len Goodwin.</p>

6 transfer boxes, 15 archive boxes, 1 small non-standard box, 1 folder and 1 packet

Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Transactions of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy.

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

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

Württembergische Apotheker als Fabrikanten

Beiträge zur Württembergischen Apothekengeschichte.

Apotheker Dr Alfred Silber aus Reutlingen / von Armin Wankmüller.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 47.1 x 32.1 cm

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

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Burroughs, Silas Mainville

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

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

Apotheker Dr Alfred Silber aus Reutlingen / von Armin Wankmüller.

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

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Pharmacists

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Burroughs, Silas Mainville

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

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

Apotheker Dr Alfred Silber aus Reutlingen / von Armin Wankmüller.

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

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