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  • 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 a French pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of a Pompeian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • Shops of hashish merchants on a street in Cairo. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, c. 1850, after himself.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Hispano-Moresque pharmacy. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.