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Scales (Weighing instruments)

Images

  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • An apothecary composed of the attributes of the trade. Line engraving.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A man in Turkish dress weighing rhubarb for sale. Gouache.
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Catalogue

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    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

    | Date: 1927 | Reference: 28915i
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    Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.

    Marie Appeli, J., active 1731. | Reference: 15958i
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    A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.

    | Reference: 16089i
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    A baker and his wife weighing their baby, representing an advertisement for "Boulangère" chicory. Chromolithograph by L. Olivié, ca. 1890.

    Olivié, Léon, 1833-1901. | Date: [1890?] | Reference: 12018i
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    A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

    | Date: [1840?] | Reference: 15898i
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