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  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • An apothecary composed of the attributes of the trade. Line engraving.
  • 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 man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • 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 composed of the attributes of the trade. Line engraving.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Hispano-Moresque pharmacy. Photograph.
  • A woman bearing a sword and measuring scales; representing justice. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
  • Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.
  • A busy drinking scene outside a tavern with the landlord taking a drink order from a new customer. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after J. Laguerre.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.
  • A man tasting tea with inset picture of kettles boiling. Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890.
  • 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.
  • The interior of a shop of a family of apothecaries - d' Ailly. Photoprint by V.A Bruckmann, 1904, after an oil painting by J. Jelgerhuis Rienksz, 1818.
  • 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.
  • A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • Interior of St. Stephens pharmacy, Venice. Watercolour, 1920.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A girl waiting for a pharmacist to make up a prescription. Photogravure, 1912, after J. Jendrassik, 1896.
  • The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • The Mughal emperor being weighed on his birthday. Coloured etching.