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  • A couple and their child consulting a pharmacist in his shop, an apprentice is mixing up a concoction with a large pestle and mortar. Soft-ground etching.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • The interior of a shop of a family of apothecaries - d' Ailly. Photoprint by V.A Bruckmann, 1904, after an oil painting by J. Jelgerhuis Rienksz, 1818.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • A man with bronchitis asks a chemist for a remedy. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • 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.
  • A lady asks a pharmacist about his enlargening potion; he displays the bump on his head as proof of its efficacy. Process print after a wood engraving.
  • An old lady in a pharmacy misunderstanding the use of a thermometer: she thinks the ambient temperature will adjust to match a setting on the thermometer, rather than vice versa. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1887.
  • A customer at a pharmacy makes a verbal gaffe when asking for iodine. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol oil; implying a satirical attack on the Quaker movement. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment, surrounded by medicinal plants. Engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • An aged unpleasant apothecary. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.
  • A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F.D. Hardy.
  • A small boy at an apothecary's shop. Reproduction of a lithograph by A. Holswilder, c. 1890.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • An aged unpleasant apothecary. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.
  • A customer asking for a Christmas box from a dentist that he regularly visits, the dentist retorts he can have a tooth pulled for free. Wood engraving after [L.S.].
  • An apothecary making a concoction in the street outside his workshop. Etching.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • Specification of John Savory : apparatus for inhaling medicinal powders or vapours.
  • Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A girl waiting for a pharmacist to make up a prescription. Photogravure, 1912, after J. Jendrassik, 1896.
  • An apothecary with instruments of his profession seated in an arched window. Lithograph by M. Vernaut after G. Metsu.