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Apothecary jars

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  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Venetian Albarello drug jar c 1590 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    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
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

    Manelli, V. | Reference: 36433i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0007520: Three pharmacy jars

    | Date: 6 September 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/64/68
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    • Online

    Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: pharmacy shop. Steel engraving.

    | Reference: 20201i
    • Books

    Ceramiche italiane di farmacia / Giorgio Lise.

    Lise, Giorgio. | Date: [1987], ©1987
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