Stories
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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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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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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
Formules de pharmacie: in Latin and French
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.2407- Books
Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums / by Sami K. Hamarneh.
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 1925-2010.Date: 1972- Books
- Online
Murepsologia; or, the art of the apothecary, traced up to its original source in history ; and the antiquity and consequence of the druggists and drug merchants asserted and maintained against the misrepresentations of the author of a late history of medicine ... / by Joseph Bradney.
Date: [1795?]