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  • A witch at her table being helped by her attendant: they are surrounded by various bottles, mortars and jars. Etching by W. Unger.
  • A disgruntled gouty man with all limbs bandaged, a table covered in medicine bottles is next to him. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Palace of Agriculture: a tower of olive oil bottles produced by Elwood Cooper. Photograph, 1904.
  • Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, as a doctor admitting that he mislabelled medicine bottles; referring to misgovernment of Ireland and Scotland. Pencil drawing, ca. 180-.
  • Savory & Moore Ltd, London: interior of the pharmacy with a long wooden bench and shelves of labelled bottles and jars holding drugs. Photograph.
  • A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.
  • A woman with a very elaborate hair style and a rump extended with cork armatures is being pursued by winged uncorked bottles. Etching, 1777.
  • A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.
  • An ailing old man surrounded by medicine bottles and cases moans that his doctor has not given him enough medicine. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Two Indian men: (left) seated, cutting green produce to shape, and (right) carrying a red bag and two bottles of fluid (ink? dye?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A man sitting with his arms around 2 women holding bottles, a man lies collapsed on a table in front: preventing HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Colour lithograph by FHI/Impact, ca. 2000.
  • A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a pharmacist for a remedy; the pharmacist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers, with fatal results. Line block.
  • Palmyra, Syria: Louis-François Cassas, received by an Arab chief in the temple of Bel, offers him bottles of liquids and pistols. Engraving by S.C. Miger after L.F. Cassas.
  • 4 Pewter feeding bottles, 18th and 19th century. First 18th, second 18th c. and French, third 19th c. French. Fourth etched floral design 'A.W. 1770.
  • Robert Macaire as a doctor selling, at a so-called 'free consultation', bottles of water for twenty francs each and glasses of water for 10 centimes each. Lithograph by H. Daumier, c. 1835.
  • Syringes with bulbs of natural rubber. These bulbs were made from rubber bottles made by the Indians of S. America and imported to Europe at the end of 18th or beginning of 19th century.
  • Two young gay men sit holding hands on a sofa before numerous bottles of drink with a block of text about the importance of safe sex below in Swedish. Colour lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.
  • A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
  • A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
  • A group of men are sitting around a table, playing cards and smoking, there are empty bottles lying around on the floor and one man has fallen asleep. Etching by S.J. Ferries after Wm. P. Frith.
  • The naked body of a child amidst empty bottles in a rubbish tip with a warning about the need to fight alcholism and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Shenoa Egawa Poster Designs, 1994, for the Seattle Indian Health Board.
  • For good health, use The Hygienic Co.'s sterilized milk : guaranteed pure full-cream milk : free from disease germs : the one and only firm in Portsmouth who sterilize milk and deliver in air-tight bottles... / The Hygienic Milk Co.
  • A woman who has lost her hair is standing in front of a mirror with a wig in her hands, there are bottles and potions on the table by her and a box on the floor at her feet. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • A woman who has lost her hair is standing in front of a mirror with a wig in her hands, there are bottles and potions on the table by her and a box on the floor at her feet. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • A woman standing at her dressing table and arranging her bodice; upon the dressing table is a power box and puff, two perfume bottles and a mirror upon which perches a bird. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A woman who has lost her hair is standing in front of a mirror with a wig in her hands, there are bottles and potions on the table by her and a box on the floor at her feet. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • "Here's your bonus- I'm glad it's a good one this time" : as usual we are giving a special bonus of 5% on all Oxo purchases (cubes and bottles) during the Autumn bonus period ... September /October 1954 ... / Oxo Limited.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'The bottle has done its work'