Jean de Renou: his portrait, and the subjects of his book on pharmacy; centre, Galen and Hippocrates holding a lion skin; below, Richard Tomlinson. Engraving by T. Cross, 1657.

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1657
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567658i
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Above, left, the sun and medicinal plants; right, a physician writing a prescription for a patient. Below, left, an apothecary's laboratory, with a furnace, crocodile, etc.; right, animals (materia medica)

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[London] : [J. Streater & J. Cottrel], 1657.

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1 print : engraving ; image 26.5 x 15.7 cm

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Renodaeus his dispensatory containing the whole body of pharmacy. Translated by Rich. Tomlinson apothecary 1657. Gallen. Hipocrates. Cross sculpsit.

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A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, Cambridge 1952-1964, part 3. The reign of Charles I by M. Corbett & M. Norton, p. 322, no. 131, and pl. 164a

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Wellcome Collection 567658i

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