An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: sive praescriptorum chilias. In qua remediorum elegantium, & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes ferè medendi intentiones accommodata, candide proponuntur. Una cum viribus, operandi ratione, dosibus & incidibus annexis / Per Thomam Fuller, M.D.

An unsympathetic doctor giving a patient a prescription, telling her it doesn't matter whether she takes it or not. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1931.

Thesaurus pauperum. Qui in comincia illibro chiamato Thesoro de poueri / compilato et facto per maestro Piero Spano.

A well known doctor giving a prescription to a patient and telling him if it doesn't work to come back. Reproduction of a drawing after G.L. Stampa, 1926.

Joseph Muff an unscrupulous physician and pharmacist giving child a mixture of medicine for her mother. Wood engraving by E. Landell after J. Leech, 1842 (?).

A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.

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The Eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines / collated from the best authorities, by an American physician.

Descriptive catalogue of fluid and solid extracts : also pills, resinoids, and alkaloids / prepared by Henry Thayer & Co. With formulas and receipts.

Formulæ medicamentorum selectæ; or, select prescriptions of the most eminent physicians, for various diseases incident to the human body. By Edward Fox, Apothecary in ordinary to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia.

The family surgeon and physician or, Every man his own doctor : containing many valuable prescriptions, for curing various diseases of the human body ... also a collection of receipts for cattle, &c. / Robert Boyce.

A conspectus of prescriptions in medicine, surgery, and midwifery : containing upwards of a thousand modern formulæ, including the new French medicines, and arranged tables of doses. Selected from the highest professional authorities, intended as a remembrancer for general practitioners.

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Descriptive catalogue of fluid and solid extracts : also pills, resinoids, and alkaloids / prepared by Henry Thayer & Co. With formulas and receipts.

Formulæ medicamentorum selectæ; or, select prescriptions of the most eminent physicians, for various diseases incident to the human body. By Edward Fox, Apothecary in ordinary to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia.

The family surgeon and physician or, Every man his own doctor : containing many valuable prescriptions, for curing various diseases of the human body ... also a collection of receipts for cattle, &c. / Robert Boyce.

A conspectus of prescriptions in medicine, surgery, and midwifery : containing upwards of a thousand modern formulæ, including the new French medicines, and arranged tables of doses. Selected from the highest professional authorities, intended as a remembrancer for general practitioners.

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Catalogue

Descriptive catalogue of fluid and solid extracts : also pills, resinoids, and alkaloids / prepared by Henry Thayer & Co. With formulas and receipts.

Formulæ medicamentorum selectæ; or, select prescriptions of the most eminent physicians, for various diseases incident to the human body. By Edward Fox, Apothecary in ordinary to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia.

The family surgeon and physician or, Every man his own doctor : containing many valuable prescriptions, for curing various diseases of the human body ... also a collection of receipts for cattle, &c. / Robert Boyce.

A conspectus of prescriptions in medicine, surgery, and midwifery : containing upwards of a thousand modern formulæ, including the new French medicines, and arranged tables of doses. Selected from the highest professional authorities, intended as a remembrancer for general practitioners.