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A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Reference: 20538i- Pictures
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A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
Franklin, J.Date: 1841Reference: 6925i- Pictures
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People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
Franklin, John, active 1800-1861.Reference: 6924i- Pictures
A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1821Reference: 20995i- Pictures
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A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people.. Pen drawing by B. Pinelli, 1821.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Reference: 20993i- Pictures
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A Chinese seller of a snake antidote. Drawing by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 580446iPart of: Chinese professions- Pictures
People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
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A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.Date: [1841]Reference: 20717i- Pictures
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An apothecary publically preparing the drug theriac, under the supervision of a physician. Woodcut.
Date: 1500-1599Reference: 16050i- Pictures
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Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
Reference: 16335i- Pictures
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Two plants, holy thistle (Silybum marianum) and Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24668i- Pictures
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Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
Reference: 16336i- Pictures
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Helmet flower (Aconitum anthora L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18230i- Pictures
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A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
Reference: 45831i- Pictures
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Reginald McKenna as British Home Secretary asking Æsculapius for help with the microbe "Militancy"; referring to political militancy. Wood engraving.
Date: 1913Reference: 15777i- Pictures
Vignettes of Peel's first ministry surrounded by eight figures representing certain professions. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: 2 February 1835Reference: 12241i- Pictures
The Treaty of Paris: the King-at-arms with decrescent moons on his tabard sits on a horse with the ears of an ass surrounded by grotesque attendants. Engraving by Patchpeace, 1763.
Patchpeace.Date: [March 22 1763]Reference: 581172i- Pictures
A crowd watching a troupe of quack-doctors on a stage outside an inn. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, ca. 1640(?).
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 45030i- Pictures
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James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
Date: 17 March 1783Reference: 20790i- Pictures
Chinese tradesmen and street-vendors. Drawings, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 727429i- Pictures
A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 18173i