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  • A Spanish rent boy who insists on safe sex gives "perfect customer service"; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Wolfang Mudra and Martin E. Kautter for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Bulbous perennial. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A little boy attempting to serve a customer in a pharmacy. Pen drawing, 1846.
  • A little boy attempting to serve a customer in a pharmacy. Pen drawing, 1846.
  • Interior of St. Stephens pharmacy, Venice. Watercolour, 1920.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
  • An apothecary is making up a prescription for waiting customers, another takes a jar down from a shelf. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • 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.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • 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.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • A female apothecary mixing up a prescription for a child. Etching by G. Greux, 187-, after Q.G. van Brekelenkam.
  • 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.
  • Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.
  • Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.