Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Skip to main content

Stories

Images

  • A Spanish rent boy who insists on safe sex gives "perfect customer service"; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Wolfang Mudra and Martin E. Kautter for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Bulbous perennial. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A little boy attempting to serve a customer in a pharmacy. Pen drawing, 1846.
  • A little boy attempting to serve a customer in a pharmacy. Pen drawing, 1846.
  • Interior of St. Stephens pharmacy, Venice. Watercolour, 1920.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.