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Drugs - Prescribing

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Images about Drugs - Prescribing

8 images from works
  • A physician in his study, turning to the viewer to exploit illness arising from sin. Engraving by J.D. Hertz, 17--.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
  • A doctor surrounded by four dead bodies writes out a prescription at a table, while to the right a man puts his sword into his scabbard after killing a man; indicating that the pen of the physician is mightier than the sword of the knight. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • An apothecary tells a drug addict to fill in his own prescription. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.

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    A physician in his study, turning to the viewer to exploit illness arising from sin. Engraving by J.D. Hertz, 17--.

    Johann Daniel Herz the Elder | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 45473i
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    The fight of my life : the inspiring story of a mother's fight against breast cancer / Barbara Clark.

    Clark, Barbara | Date: 2006
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    An apothecary tells a drug addict to fill in his own prescription. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

    | Reference: 17204i
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    Powerful medicines : the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs / Jerry Avorn.

    Jerry Avorn | Date: 2005
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    An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

    | Reference: 17206i
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Related topics

Medication abuse
Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Prescription Drugs
Physicians
Drug Industry
Pharmacists - Malpractice
Death
Pharmacists
General Practitioners
Drug Prescriptions

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