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  • The surgions mate, or a treatise discovering ... the due contents of the surgions chest, the uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of the medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at sea ... with a briefe explanation of sal, sulphur, and mercury; with certaine characters, and tearmes of arte / [John Woodall].
  • The surgions mate, or a treatise discovering ... the due contents of the surgions chest, the uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of the medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at sea ... with a briefe explanation of sal, sulphur, and mercury; with certaine characters, and tearmes of arte / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate, or, Military & domestique surgery : discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague ... / John Woodal.
  • The surgeons mate, or, Military & domestique surgery : discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague ... / John Woodal.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious patient. Engraving by G. Volpato after F. Maggiotto.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious patient. Engraving by G. Volpato after F. Maggiotto.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.
  • A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G. Woodward.
  • Select medicines and family articles prepared and sold by J. K. Clapham, dispensing chemist, and manufacturer of aerated waters, 6, Briggate, Leeds.
  • Select medicines and family articles prepared and sold by J. K. Clapham, dispensing chemist, and manufacturer of aerated waters, 6, Briggate, Leeds.
  • A woman giving birth in an elaborate room aided by a midwife and a nun and surrounded by her husband and family. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • Burroughs Wellcome & Co Advert: Portable "Tabloid" Medicines
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • Sandalwood (Santalum album): flowering and fruiting stem. Chromolithograph by Leighton Brothers, c. 1887, after I. Sinclair.
  • 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.
  • Medical Chest of Queen Mentu-Hotep
  • "Dr. William Hunter at a confinement"
  • 'Tabloid' Medical Chest
  • A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by
  • A fruit farmer advertising fruit-tree protection with insecticides produced by the firm of Teerag. Colour embossed metal, 19--.
  • 9 "Tabloid" medicine Cases used in Africa
  • Venus standing on a heart, holding a sword that passes through another heart; a suppliant kneels before her; around them are various hearts, pierced with an arrow, aflame, sawn, stabbed, broken, in a vice, etc. Coloured photograph by E. Charles, 1967, after Meister Casper, ca. 1470.