Healthcare professional who practices in pharmacy

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Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.

English pharmacy, c. 1680.

The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.

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

A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a pharmacist for a remedy; the pharmacist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers, with fatal results. Line block.

Walter A. Walling, registered pharmacist : Providence R.I / Walter A. Walling.

Peel about to force-feed a large tablet to John Bull in an apothecaries shop; representing England at the hands of the politicians. Lithograph by H. Heath.

Ekins pharmacy, Melbourne, Victoria: the shop seen from the street, with the pharmacist and his family standing outside. Photograph by E.C. Waddington, ca. 1883/1884.

A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.

A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.

Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.

A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.

The inhalation. : Not to be taken. / Savory & Moore.

A charter granted to the apothecaries of London the 30th of May, 13 Jac. I : translated and printed for the better information of the said apothecaries in their duty to the city of London, the Colledg of Physicians and their own society.

Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Peroxide of hydrogen: T. Ernest Jones MPS, dispensing chemist, 64A, Taff Street, Pontypridd / T. Ernest Jones.

Boots Medisure domiciliary dosage system : the free medicine management system from Boots / The Boots Company PLC.

Principal drugs and their uses / by a pharmacist ; revised by Gwendoline Hindes.

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Pharmacists

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Images featuring Pharmacists

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Principal drugs and their uses / by a pharmacist ; revised by Gwendoline Hindes.

Pharmacists

Images from the collections

Images featuring Pharmacists

Works from the collections

Principal drugs and their uses / by a pharmacist ; revised by Gwendoline Hindes.

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