Stories
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Pestle and Mortar / Aerosol Typescript History
Date: c 1970Reference: WF/C/M/H/11Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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At the Pestle and Mortar, in Abchurch-Lane in Lombard-street, you may have these following medicines.
Date: [1675?]- Books
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Arcana Mooreana; or, a succinct and lucid discourse, of the origine, essence, scituation symptoms, causes and cure of the cholick, In all its various Denominations, different Kinds, Degrees, and Complications. Done by Mr. John Moore, Apothecary, at the Pestle and Mortar, in Abchurch-Lane, near I umbard-street.
Moore, John, -1737.Date: 1713- Books
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Fourteen sermons, preached on several occasions. Never before printed. By Nich. Brady, D. D. Minister of Richmond in Surry; and Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty.
Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.Date: 1704- Books
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The grand essay: or, a vindication of reason, and religion, against impostures of philosophy Proving according to those Ideas and Conceptions of Things Human Understanding is capable of forming to it self. 1. That the Existence of any Immaterial Substance is a Philosophic Imposture, and impossible to be conceived. 2. That all Matter has Originally created in it, a principle of Internal, or Self-Motion. 3. That Matter and Motion must be the Foundation of Thought in Men and Brutes. To which is added, A brief answer to Mr. Broughton's Physcholo. &c. By W.C. M.D. C.M. L.C.
Coward, William, 1657?-1725.Date: 1704