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  • Advert for Tim Pill Box
  • Progesterone only morning after pill + box
  • W. Brockedon's pills: pills, pill-box, and leaflet advertising Brockedon's Patent Compressed Pills of Pure Chlorate of Potass and of Pure Bicarbonate of Potass. From the Wellcome Institute
  • In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
  • In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • A cartoon-figure called 'Leo' juggles a video, a bottle, a condom, a syringe and a pill box while standing on a tight-rope above a crater against a starry night sky; advertising the 2nd 'Stop AIDS' festival in Mainz, 1990. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • Beechams Pills worth a guinea a box : Beechams Powders for flu, colds, catarrh, headache.
  • A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • Cherry blossom and falling leaves, representing spring and autumn respectively, with box of Aspro pills for use in those seasons. Colour lithograph, 1957.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
  • An old man in night-clothes holding up a box of "Uricure" pills as an advertisement for their efficacy against rheumatic diseases. Coloured lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1910.
  • An old man in night-clothes holding up a box of "Uricure" pills as an advertisement for their efficacy against rheumatic diseases. Coloured lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1910.
  • Patrick Anderson: a fragment of the printed seal placed on boxes of his pills. Woodcut (?).
  • John Bull, with leeches on his chest, sits on a commode full of gold coin; he is attended by Lords Stanhope and Perceval dressed as doctors; Napoleon holds the commode. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1811.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • Widow Welch's Pills
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to a Bavarian painter, 18/19th century, after David Teniers the younger.
  • A box of Aspro (analgesic and flu remedy) among falling autumn leaves. Colour lithograph after Damour, ca. 1930 (?).