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  • Lapis lazuli, Charles Alston's lectures on materia medica
  • Lapis lazuli, Charles Alston's lectures on materia medica
  • Lapis lazuli, Charles Alston's lectures on materia medica
  • Lapis lazuli, Charles Alston's lectures on materia medica
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Sesame of Jinzhou
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cardamom of Yizhou
  • Bencao Gangmu -- Ming materia medica, Trifoliate orange, etc.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Snakes
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Precious metals
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: an exhibition of materia medica. Photograph, 1913.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: working area in the materia medica stores. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: working area in the materia medica stores. Photograph.
  • Materia medica, liber I. De plantis. Secundum genera, loca, nomina, qualitates, vires, differentias, durationes, simplicia, modos, usus, synonyma, culturas, praeparata, potentias, composita, digestus / [Carl von Linné].
  • Materia medica, liber I. De plantis. Secundum genera, loca, nomina, qualitates, vires, differentias, durationes, simplicia, modos, usus, synonyma, culturas, praeparata, potentias, composita, digestus / [Carl von Linné].
  • Materia medica, liber I. De plantis. Secundum genera, loca, nomina, qualitates, vires, differentias, durationes, simplicia, modos, usus, synonyma, culturas, praeparata, potentias, composita, digestus / [Carl von Linné].
  • Materia medica, liber I. De plantis. Secundum genera, loca, nomina, qualitates, vires, differentias, durationes, simplicia, modos, usus, synonyma, culturas, praeparata, potentias, composita, digestus / [Carl von Linné].
  • Materia medica, liber I. De plantis. Secundum genera, loca, nomina, qualitates, vires, differentias, durationes, simplicia, modos, usus, synonyma, culturas, praeparata, potentias, composita, digestus / [Carl von Linné].
  • Materia medica from a Chinese apothecary's shop: heads and beaks of birds, hoofs and legs of other animals and bears' feet in lines on the ground. Photograph.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • Institutionum pharmaceuticarum, libri quinque quibus accedunt de materia medica, libri tres. Omnibus succedit officina pharmaceutica, sive antidotarium ab eodem auctore / [Jean de Renou].
  • Institutionum pharmaceuticarum, libri quinque quibus accedunt de materia medica, libri tres. Omnibus succedit officina pharmaceutica, sive antidotarium ab eodem auctore / [Jean de Renou].
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.
  • Aesculapius and other ancients are presented with exotic materia medica from the far east, which are turned into medicines in a pharmaceutical elaboratory. Oil painting by Johannes Prey, 1791.
  • A manual of materia medica, containing a brief account of all the simples directed in the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, with their several preparations and the principal compositions into which they enter / [John Aikin].