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Type/Technique

Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Images

  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
  • 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 sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • An excited physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis, two assistants are mixing concoctions in the background. Mezzotint by J.B. Enzensberger after D. Teniers, the younger.
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    • Books

    Zhongguo gu dai fang shis yang sheng ji yao / Song Shugong.

    | Date: 1991
    • Books

    Every man his own physician : being, a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body ... / by John Theobald.

    Theobald, John, -1760. | Date: 1764
    • Books

    Pharmacopœia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a complete English dispensatory, in four parts : to which is added, An account of the common adulterations both of simples and compounds, with some marks to detect them / by John Quincy.

    Quincy, John, -1722. | Date: 1736
    • Books

    The second part of the Secretes of Maister Alexis of Piemont / by hym collected out of diuers excellent aucthours, and newly translated out of French into English ... By Willyam Ward.

    Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. | Date: 1563
    • Books

    Chieh tu p'ien / [by] Wang Chi.

    Wang, Chi, 1791-1801. | Date: 1988

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