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  • Punarnavasavam drug label from the Aryavaidya Pharmacy (CBE) Ltd, Kerala, India.
  • Savory & Moore Ltd, London: the interior of the pharmacy; wooden shelves with labelled bottles and jars holding drugs. Photograph.
  • Savory & Moore Ltd, London: interior of the pharmacy with a long wooden bench and shelves of labelled bottles and jars holding drugs. Photograph.
  • A yellow pill next to a jar bearing the label 'Partners Recommended dosage - one only' with a male and female figure; a warning about the dangers of drugs and AIDS from a concept by Dahlia Phillips with assistance from Unicef and Life of Barbados. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Product label: Restitutions fluid
  • 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.
  • Chinese spouted drug jar, Ching dynasty.
  • A tree showing the evolution of health care in the twentieth century. Colour print by J. Galloway and R. Richards, 2011.
  • Selection of apothecary jars
  • Selection of apothecary jars
  • Jason being vomited from the dragon of Colchis's mouth after it had received a drug from Athena. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • Medicines used against AIDS; advertising their free availability to Hispanic American people with HIV or AIDS from the New York State Health Department. Colour lithograph.
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  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.