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Images

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.
  • The pharmacy of J. Cassel, founded in 1683 at 4 Rue de la Barre, Dieppe: detail of the timpanum above the entrance. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • A child serving behind the counter of a chemists and offering advice to a female customer. Wood engraving.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
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Works

  • view An apothecary's shop: interior. Watercolour by Lucy Pierce.
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    An apothecary's shop: interior. Watercolour by Lucy Pierce.

    Pierce, Lucy Elizabeth, active 1910-1950 | Date: 1900-1999 | Reference: 44604i
  • view Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
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    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

    | Date: 1927 | Reference: 28915i
  • view A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Painting by L.H. Choustrac, 1905.
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    A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Painting by L.H. Choustrac, 1905.

    Choustrac, L.H., active 1905 | Date: 1905 | Reference: 577178i
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    Pharmacy of Hodson & Baldry, Tenbury Wells. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 647833i
  • view Multi-coloured condoms with the message in French: "Condom and gel: the inseparable couple ... pleasure without risk"; including a list of condom makes from Bartoline to Wet; an advertisement by the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA and SPG, Santé et Plaisir Gai. Colour lithograph.
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    Multi-coloured condoms with the message in French: "Condom and gel: the inseparable couple ... pleasure without risk"; including a list of condom makes from Bartoline to Wet; an advertisement by the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA and SPG, Santé et Plaisir Gai. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 672514i
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