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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
  • A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Lithograph after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • Death as an apothecary's assistant making up medicines with a mortar and pestle for the apothecary attending a female patient who sits by the fireside. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson or one of his followers.
  • A rural surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar amidst a busy workshop. Etching by W. Unger after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • A tooth-drawer is extracting a tooth from a tense seated patient, the room is scattered with objects pertaining to academia. Line engraving by A. Kesler after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • Apparatus for an apothecary. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.
  • An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.
  • Interior of the decorative and elaborate court pharmacy of Rastatt. Coloured line engraving.
  • An apothecary, John Simmonds, and his boy apprentice, William, working in the laboratory of John Bell's pharmacy. Engraving by J.G. Murray, 1842, after W.H. Hunt.
  • 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.
  • A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
  • Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.