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Pharmacies

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Images from the collections

Images about Pharmacies

234 images from works
  • M0007508: Reconstruction of a London pharmacy, 1625
  • Experiments and observations on the danger of copper and bell-metal in pharmaceutical and chemical preparations: / by William Blizard.
  • Wampole's Preparation : tonic and stimulant for all ages / Leon P. DuPlessis.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wampole's Preparation : tonic and stimulant for all ages / Leon P. DuPlessis.
  • Wampole's Preparation : tonic and stimulant for all ages / Leon P. DuPlessis.
  • Wampole's Preparation : tonic and stimulant for all ages / Leon P. DuPlessis.
  • Wampole's Preparation : tonic and stimulant for all ages / Leon P. DuPlessis.
  • Wampole's Preparation : tonic and stimulant for all ages / Leon P. DuPlessis.
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Works from the collections

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    The old pharmacy of the hôpital Saint-Denis, France: ornate shelving with decorative china pharmacy jars and glass bottles. Photograph, 1890/1910.

    | Date: 1890-1910 | Reference: 565001i
    • Ephemera

    Boots Medisure domiciliary dosage system : the free medicine management system from Boots / The Boots Company PLC.

    | Date: [2009]
    • Ephemera

    Oil of juniper : J. Cox & Son, dispensing chemists, 36, Watergate, Grantham / J. Cox & Son.

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1949?]
    • Books

    A pharmacy moves from Leeds to Hull / D.A.H.

    Hutton, D. A. | Date: 1976
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0006342: Arab pharmacy in Damascus

    | Date: June 1939 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/53/23
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Related topics

Pharmacists
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Drug Prescriptions
London
Dampney, R. S.
History, 19th Century
W. R. Hedges and Son Ltd
Boots Company.
Harrod, C. E.

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