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

Compound syrup of hypophosphites : being neither acid nor alkaline it will not derange the stomach.

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

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Pharmacists

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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

Compound syrup of hypophosphites : being neither acid nor alkaline it will not derange the stomach.

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

Pharmacists

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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

Compound syrup of hypophosphites : being neither acid nor alkaline it will not derange the stomach.

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

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