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  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • Villiers Street, Strand: the north-east part, including the shop of William Challice, chemist and druggist; Alsopp's dining and oyster rooms; and a cigar shop. Photograph, 189-.
  • Definition of a condom against a textured background: "The only protection against AIDS" with instructions on how to buy them in French: 'In a pharmacy, just say: "Bonjour, une boîte de préservatifs, s'il vous plaît"'; an advertisement by Mairie de Paris. Colour lithograph.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • Thomas Brugis: his portrait, with vignettes of the work and equipment of the surgeon and apothecary. Line engraving by T. Cross.
  • The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries' pharmacy, Water Lane, Blackfriars, London: a woman is served by the pharmacist, who stands behind a high polished wood counter, in front of shelves holding glass pharmacy jars. Photograph, ca. 1935.
  • A pharmaceutical business (John Bell & Co.): rooms for manufacture, dispensing, and shop. Etching by R.W. Macbeth.
  • An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.
  • Two Chinese men stand by a shop window while opium smokers sit on the terrace above. Pencil drawing with sepia wash by W. J. Bellairs, 19th century.
  • 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.
  • A grocer's shop in England: doorway and shop window. Photograph.
  • In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
  • In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • A green neon-lit pharmacy shop sign on the corner of a street with a message in French: 'There are places for protection on every street corner'; with a sterile needle and a condom advertising pharmacies as the first port of call for protection against AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministére du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, L'Assurance Maladie Sécurité Sociale, Ordre National des Pharmacies and CFES. Colour lithograph.
  • A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.
  • A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • 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 boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of John Bell's pharmacy in the ground floor galleries. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1928].
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Italian pharmacy. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of J. Bell's pharmacy in the ground floor galleries. Photograph, c. 1928.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of a Spanish pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of a French pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of a Pompeian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.