Stories
- Article
Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
- Article
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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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
![The penis of Michelangelo's sculpture of David with a reminder 'to all purses, here is the condom at 10F [francs] available in all good pharmacies'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé. Colour lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b16721275_l0052960.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Pharmacies
Date: c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/SL/34Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Pharmacies, reconstruction of'
Date: 1959-1962Reference: WA/HMM/EX/F.20Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Pharmacies de toujours / Marie-Odile Andrade.
Andrade, Marie-Odile.Date: [1979]- Books
Pharmacies and pharmacists in Latvia / Janis Stradins, Juris Salaks.
Stradin̦š, J. (Jānis)Date: 1996- Books
Pharmacies et pharmaciens en Suisse romande aux XVe - XVIe sìècles / Corinne Charles.
Charles, Corinne.Date: 2005
