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  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A rural surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Etching by A.T.J.M. Potémont after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A man in a gown and a mortar board is seated on a chair, carried above the heads of the crowd by men who are in turn standing on the heads of men also wearing academic dress. Lithograph.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS issued by the State AIDS Cell of the Goverment of Tamil Nadu and sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • An apothecary with pharmaceutical equipment seated in an arched window. Etching by B.A. Dunker after G. Metsu.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • An alchemist working with his assistants at a crucible. Etching by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An alchemist working with his assistants at a crucible. Etching by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • A man comprised of pharmaceutical equipment. Coloured lithograph, 1830.
  • A man comprised of pharmaceutical equipment. Coloured lithograph, 1830.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, the pharmacist and his apprentice at work. Engraving.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • A doctor trying to administer medicines to a drunken, carbuncled sailor. Coloured etching by W. Elmes after XYZ.
  • A nursing nun in a pharmacy: with the hospital in the background. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1838, after F.J.J. Goetzenberger.
  • An alchemist with angel's wings and a skull cap, pouring fluid from a ladle into a crucible. Pencil drawing by J. Tenniel, 1898.
  • A young woman being visited by a member of the clergy while another woman cries beside her. Line engraving, 1813.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A design for a pharmacy label containing paraphernalia associated with that discipline. Engraving.
  • An apothecary is making up a prescription for waiting customers, another takes a jar down from a shelf. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • The Dutch maid (De Nederlandse Maagd), personifying the Netherlands asks an apothecary whether a medicine might not be poisonous; symbolising doubts over a new Dutch tax law; he replies no, a babe-in-arms could take it. Process print after J. Braakensiek, 1890.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription in his working room. Chromolithograph, 1901(?).