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- Ephemera
Herbal medicine ephemera. Box 4.
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A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
Hodgkin, Eliot, 1905-1987.Date: [1969?]Reference: 2497376i- Pictures
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A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
Taylor, H., active 1786.Date: 25 March 1786Reference: 22184i- Pictures
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A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
Taylor, H., active 1786.Date: 25 March 1786Reference: 21589i- Pictures
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Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 11862i- Pictures
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A nurse dropping an aspirin pill into a glass of water; advertising soluble aspirin. Colour lithograph by M. Cliot, ca. 1910.
Cliot, Maurice.Date: [1910?]Reference: 676297i- Pictures
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A quack doctor irresponsibly dispensing his potions. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10938i- Books
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The so much fam'd tablets.
Date: [1680]- Pictures
Advertisement for tablets that are supposed to help indigestion, anemia, stomach problems, migraines and insomnia. Colour photomechanical reproduction.
Reference: 16211i- Pictures
A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 15913i- Books
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Specification of Jules Denoual : envelopes for medicinal preparations.
Denoual, Jules.Date: 1855- Books
Asthma and its cure by Asthma tablet / S. C. Roy.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Pictures
A soldier has taken his anti-malarial tablet, and is trying to swallow it down. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, ca. 1944.
Hopper, Stacey, 1909-1996.Date: [1944?]Reference: 584429i- Pictures
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A pharmacist and his friend discuss the new tax on medicine; with four other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Reference: 17270i- Pictures
In a line-up of soldiers, one soldier has forgotten to take his anti-malarial tablet: the sergeant-major bawls at him. Colour lithograph by Stacey Hopper, ca. 1942.
Hopper, Stacey, 1909-1996.Date: [1942?]Reference: 584428i- Pictures
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A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 8 May 1831Reference: 11852iPart of: Grants oddities- Pictures
A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11856i- Pictures
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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.
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.Date: 1906Reference: 15348i- Pictures
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Aspirin tablets in tubes and boxes. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1925?]Reference: 47574i- Pictures
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A doctor visiting an Irish patient whose wife queries the recommendation to take one pill three times a day. Wood engraving after D. Wilson, 1903.
Wilson, David, 1873-1935.Date: 1903Reference: 15341i- Pictures
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A theatrical figure in a tuxedo supporting a pestle and mortar as a hat and holding a large pill. Watercolour painting.
Chasemore, Archibald, active 1874-1878.Reference: 15700i- Books
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Examen omnium catapotiorum, vel pilularum, quarum apud pharmacopolas usus est / Ad illustrem Alphonsum Estensem.
Brasavola, A. M. (Antonio Musa), 1500-1555.Date: 1543- Pictures
Peel about to force-feed a large tablet to John Bull in an apothecaries shop; representing England at the hands of the politicians. Lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: 1840Reference: 12249iPart of: Political Sketches- Books
A history of geology and medicine / edited by C.J. Duffin, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, R.T.J. Moody, Kingston University, London, UK, and C. Gardner-Thorpe, University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
Date: [2013]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001283: Photograph of the interior of St. Mary's Church, Bromfield, Shropshire, showing the tablet in memory of Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830)
Date: 20 September 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/12/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive