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  • A cynical doctor describes the contents of his new cough mixture. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, 1844.
  • A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
  • Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.
  • Panacea, daughter of Æsculapius, examining a urine flask and surrounded by medical paraphernalia. Engraving by P. Galle (?).
  • An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.
  • An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.
  • Exhibition: 'The Story of Pharmacy', 1955
  • Exhibition: 'The Story of Pharmacy', 1955
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • A large John Bull being held down and force-fed by Peel and Wellington; representing the idea of the Catholic emancipation as a breach of the constitution. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • Richard Burdon Haldane as an alchemist using bellows, representing his eloquence, to distil a new military unit from three older units. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1907.
  • A lady, with her maid, consults an apothecary in his workroom, for a love philtre (?). Coloured lithograph, c.1850.
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work; the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • A wife dutifully sits by the bedside of her sick husband, watching over him. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1837, after E. Prentis.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
  • Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, food preparation, 1946
  • An elaborately dressed medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to an audience, he points to a member of the crowd whose appearence suggests he is a doctor. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.
  • Experiments and observations on the danger of copper and bell-metal in pharmaceutical and chemical preparations: / by William Blizard.