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Pharmacy

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Images from the collections

Images about Pharmacy

101 images from works
  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • An apothecary composed of the attributes of the trade. Line engraving.
  • M0018718: Trade card of T. B. Armitt, druggist, Northampton / M0018719: Advertisement for an Improved Breast Pump
  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • Product labels for the pharmacist Duroziez of Paris. Line engraving.
  • Pharmacie Centrale and Bureau d'admission des malades, Paris: with a lettered key floor and street plan. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1807.
  • This is to certify that ... of ... has been duly elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain : incorporated by royal charter A.D. 1843, charter confirmed by Parliament 1852.

Works from the collections

2,568 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Billard, Michael

    Billard, Michael | Date: 1650-1681 | Reference: MS.134
    • Books

    Preussen und die Pharmazie : die Vorträge der Pharmaziehistorischen Biennale in Potsdam vom 23. bis 25. April 2004 / herausgegeben von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

    Pharmaziehistorische Biennale (2004 : Potsdam, Germany) | Date: 2005
    • Books

    Türk eczacılık tarihi bibliografyası üzerine bir deneme (1927-2008) = a bibliographical essay on the history of pharmacy in Turkey (1927-2008) / Gülbin Özçelicay, Halil Tekiner.

    Özçelikay, Gülbin. | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Geschiedenis der pharmacie in Nederland / bewerkt door W. Stoeder.

    Stoeder, W. (Willem), 1831-1902. | Date: 1891
    • Books

    Der wahre Charakter des Apothekers : zur Geschichte der Heilberufe / Paul Ridder.

    Ridder, Paul. | Date: [2000]

Related topics

Germany
Drug Industry
History of Medicine
Materia Medica
Spain
History, 20th Century
Formulas, recipes, etc.
United Kingdom
Materia medica
History, 19th Century

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