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  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • A pharmacist and his friend discuss the new tax on medicine; with four other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot.
  • Ekins pharmacy, Melbourne, Victoria: the shop seen from the street, with the pharmacist and his family standing outside. Photograph by E.C. Waddington, ca. 1883/1884.
  • A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Joseph Muff an unscrupulous physician and pharmacist giving child a mixture of medicine for her mother. Wood engraving by E. Landell after J. Leech, 1842 (?).
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Painting by L.H. Choustrac, 1905.
  • A lady asks a pharmacist about his enlargening potion; he displays the bump on his head as proof of its efficacy. Process print after a wood engraving.
  • 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 pharmacist making up a prescription for a kangaroo; representing Chamberlain's advocacy of the Commonwealth of Australia. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1900.
  • 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 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.
  • Five senior French army officers in military dress: two administrators, the chief surgeon, a pharmacist and a physician, ca. 1804. Coloured lithograph by G. David, ca. 1858, after A. de Marbot.
  • Five senior French army officers in military dress: two administrators, the chief surgeon, a pharmacist and a physician, ca. 1804. Coloured lithograph by G. David, ca. 1858, after A. de Marbot.
  • An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.
  • A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
  • The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries' pharmacy, Water Lane, Blackfriars, London: a woman is served by the pharmacist, who stands behind a high polished wood counter, in front of shelves holding glass pharmacy jars. Photograph, ca. 1935.
  • Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Theaceae. Christmas camellia. Camellia commemorates Georg Josef Kamel (1661-1706), Jesuit pharmacist from Moravia (Czech Republic) who worked in the Philippines and sent plants to John Ray in England (Oakeley, 2012) Evergreen shrub. Distribution: Japan and China. Leaves are used in Japan to make tea (normally made from C. sinensis) and the seeds to make the edible tea seed oil. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ecballium elaterium (L.)A.Rich. Benincaseae Squirting cucumber - when ripe, the seed explodes from its case, squirting some distance. Distribution: Asia, Europe and N. Africa. Contain cucurbitacins which are very bitter, cytotoxic and poisonous. A restricted herbal product, only to be supplied in registered pharmacies or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F. Hardy.