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.

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

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

M0017064: Illustration of an apothecary mixing drugs in his shop

Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter / by Margery Rowe and G.E. Trease.

Principal drugs and their uses / by a pharmacist ; revised by Gwendoline Hindes.

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Principal drugs and their uses / by a pharmacist ; revised by Gwendoline Hindes.