Pharmaceutical bill-head for the Pharmacie Centrale de France showing personifications of commerce (left) and pharmacy (right). Steel engraving.

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1800-1899
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577332i
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Pharmaceutical bill-head for the Pharmacie Centrale de France showing personifications of commerce (left) and pharmacy (right). Steel engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2023 : Pharmaceutical bill-head for the Pharmacie Centrale de France showing two classical figures and two putti under a classical arch. Etching by Dorvault after Menier, 1852.

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The names commemorate Jean Antoine Brutus Menier (1795-1853), founder of a pharmaceutical company in 1816 and subsequently a chocolate company, and François Laurent Marie Dorvault (1815-1879) who founded the Pharmacie Centrale de France (PCF) in 1852, which combined the pharmaceutical activities of Menier and Dorvault. Above the personifications is an arch at the centre of which are the intertwined initials PC (for Pharmacie Centrale) and examples of materia medica (minerals, herbs etc.)

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1800-1899

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1 print : engraving ; image 18.9 x 25.7 cm

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Pharmacie Centrale de France et Maison Menier réunies. PC. Menier 1816 ; Dorvault 1852

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Wellcome Collection 577332i

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