A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.

A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

Advertisements for pharmaceutical products, sent through the post to physicians in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Prints, 1940s-1960s.

A grocer's shop in England: doorway and shop window. Photograph.

A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.

Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.

Maison Labélonye Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, 19, place du Caire, Paris : Médicaments spéciaux approuvés par l'Académie Impériale de Médecine de Paris, etc.

Vegetable Matico injection : used in France successfully by the most distinguished physicians, and approved by the Medical and Imperial Council of Saint-Petersburg with permission to import it onto the whole of Russia, by decree of the Minister of the Interior dated September 27, 1860.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.6 x 32.4 cm

The blue guide : advertising and promotion of medicines in the UK.

188 prints : process prints, printed in colours

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Maison Labélonye Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, 19, place du Caire, Paris : Médicaments spéciaux approuvés par l'Académie Impériale de Médecine de Paris, etc.

Vegetable Matico injection : used in France successfully by the most distinguished physicians, and approved by the Medical and Imperial Council of Saint-Petersburg with permission to import it onto the whole of Russia, by decree of the Minister of the Interior dated September 27, 1860.

A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

The blue guide : advertising and promotion of medicines in the UK.

Advertisements for pharmaceutical products, sent through the post to physicians in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Prints, 1940s-1960s.