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  • A man and a woman pounding and mixing grains or spices with a foot-operated mortar and pestle. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • A man pounding tea leaves down into a large wooden box with a large pestle, watched by a small boy. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • 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.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Episode in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle": a man with a barber's bowl beneath his chin is about to be clubbed by a knight in armour; a man stands immediately behind him, to the left is a seated couple, to the right a man who has been knocked down, and in the foreground the audience looks on. Etching by C. Grignion after M. Rooker.
  • 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.