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  • Thesaurus pauperum. Qui in comincia illibro chiamato Thesoro de poueri / compilato et facto per maestro Piero Spano.
  • Thesaurus pauperum. Qui in comincia illibro chiamato Thesoro de poueri / compilato et facto per maestro Piero Spano.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: sive praescriptorum chilias. In qua remediorum elegantium, & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes ferè medendi intentiones accommodata, candide proponuntur. Una cum viribus, operandi ratione, dosibus & incidibus annexis / Per Thomam Fuller, M.D.
  • An unsympathetic doctor giving a patient a prescription, telling her it doesn't matter whether she takes it or not. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1931.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • A patient completely misunderstanding a doctor. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A well known doctor giving a prescription to a patient and telling him if it doesn't work to come back. Reproduction of a drawing after G.L. Stampa, 1926.
  • Joseph Muff an unscrupulous physician and pharmacist giving child a mixture of medicine for her mother. Wood engraving by E. Landell after J. Leech, 1842 (?).
  • 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.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription in his working room. Chromolithograph, 1901(?).
  • A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
  • A Scottish shepherd telling a doctor on the roadside about the death of his wife and how glad he is that he didn't take any of the medicine the doctor had prescribed for his wife. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.
  • A scholar/apothecary mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar and writing down the remedy; an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
  • An apothecary is making up a prescription for waiting customers, another takes a jar down from a shelf. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.
  • A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A doctor examining a boy patient who is with his mother, recommends abstinence from meat and dairy products: the boy misunderstands the remedy. Wood engraving by JB, 1863.
  • A man with his two children consulting a herb doctor and negotiating a prescription. Wood engraving.
  • A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript.
  • A doctor reading out a letter from a dissatisfied patient to his wife over breakfast. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1878.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A girl waiting for a pharmacist to make up a prescription. Photogravure, 1912, after J. Jendrassik, 1896.