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  • Interior of the pharmacy of the Hospital of Afuera in Toledo, used between 1524-1765 and preserved in the state it was left. Photograph.
  • The front of the pharmacy of J. Cassel, founded in 1683 at 4 Rue de la Barre, Dieppe. Photograph.
  • A child misunderstanding a chemist. Wood engraving after T. Wilkinson.
  • A street at night with a pharmacy. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1900.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Facade and two ground-plans of a Parisian pharmacy. Wood engraving by W.E. Hogkin after M. Rolland.
  • 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.
  • Men digging minerals; a phoenix being reborn; a pelican feeding its chicks with its blood; symbols of the four elements; an apothecary's shop. Engraving by J. Drapentier, 1677.
  • Two men in a car outside the Wellcome pharmaceutical depot in the Middle East. Photograph.
  • Two men in a car outside the Wellcome pharmaceutical depot in the Middle East. Photograph.
  • The interior of a seventeenth-century apothecary's shop recreated for the German National Museum in Nürnberg. Photograph.
  • An old lady in a pharmacy misunderstanding the use of a thermometer: she thinks the ambient temperature will adjust to match a setting on the thermometer, rather than vice versa. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1887.
  • A seventeenth-century German apothecary's shop with ornate pharmacy jars, large metal mortars and a stuffed turtle hanging from the ceiling; recreated for the German National Museum in Nuremberg. Photograph by Christof Müller.
  • A statue of Aesculapius holding his staff and a plant stands in a large pharmacy below the coat of arms of Leiden; men working in the pharmacy in the background; representing the pharmacopoeia of Leiden. Engraving by F. van Bleyswyck, 1751.
  • Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.
  • Two people come into a pharmacy to ask for advice, the apothecary sits resting his gouty leg. Etching by N. Loder after himself.
  • Delhi: an anatomical model advertising a pharmacy. Colour photograph by Ben Dray, 1993.
  • The exterior of a small brick building used as an apothecary shop by Dr. Archibald Blair in the eighteenth century, Virginia. Photograph.
  • Delhi: an anatomical model advertising a pharmacy. Colour photograph by Ben Dray, 1993.
  • Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.
  • Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.
  • 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.
  • Thomas Brugis: his portrait, with vignettes of the work and equipment of the surgeon and apothecary. Line engraving by T. Cross.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.