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  • A study in pharmaceutical elegance : Italian drug pot, XVIth Century.
  • 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 design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription in his working room. Chromolithograph, 1901(?).
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Library with shelves of medical ceramics. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1954].
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment, surrounded by medicinal plants. Engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • A girl waiting for a pharmacist to make up a prescription. Photogravure, 1912, after J. Jendrassik, 1896.
  • Apparatus for an apothecary. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.
  • Four distinctive and elaborately adorned women presenting a queen with many riches; representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America bearing the natural bounty of the world to an allegorical figure. Line engraving.
  • A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
  • Interior of the decorative and elaborate court pharmacy of Rastatt. Coloured line engraving.
  • A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of pharmacy jars. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of pharmacy jars. Photograph, c. 1920.
  • An apothecary, John Simmonds, and his boy apprentice, William, working in the laboratory of John Bell's pharmacy. Engraving by J.G. Murray, 1842, after W.H. Hunt.
  • An interior of a stylish pharmacy with the pharmacist serving a customer and an apprentice at work with the pestle and mortar. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1825.
  • The interior of a busy pharmacy. Line engraving by C. Le Roy.
  • 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.
  • Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.