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  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.
  • Thirty tobacco-pipes from various countries of the world. Wood engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
  • 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.
  • A physician sitting before a table, holding a urine flask, with two women, a boy and several other figures in the room. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • A physician sitting before a table, holding a urine flask, with two women, a boy and several other figures in the room. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • A physician sitting before a table, holding a urine flask, with two women, a boy and several other figures in the room. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • A physician sitting before a table, holding a urine flask, with two women, a boy and several other figures in the room. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • A physician sitting before a table, holding a urine flask, with two women, a boy and several other figures in the room. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • A physician sitting before a table, holding a urine flask, with two women, a boy and several other figures in the room. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • Chinese 15th century Daoist image of internal topography
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to a Bavarian painter, 18/19th century, after David Teniers the younger.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • 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.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: The History of Pharmacy.
  • View of the Museum.
  • An apothecary. Oil painting ascribed to Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Selection of apothecary jars
  • Selection of apothecary jars
  • An old man consulting a book and holding a flask in a room with many pharmacy jars. Oil painting in the style of Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A woman in a pharmacy with a urine flask and a monkey holding an empty flask at a casement. Oil painting by Willem Joseph Laquy, 1780 (?), after J. Toorenvliet, 1677.
  • A man diagnosing from a woman's urine with the aid of a book by Galen. Oil painting.
  • A philosopher in his study, consulted by an old woman to determine from a flask of urine whether the young woman accompanying her is pregnant. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck or a follower of Egbert van Heemskerck, ca. 1680/1799.