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Medication abuse

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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--.
  • A sick man lamenting the uselessness of his physicians. Engraving by J.D. Hertz, 17--.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

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    Reducing benzodiazepine consumption : psychological contributions to general practice / Margaret A. Cormack, R. Glynn Owens, Michael E. Dewey.

    Cormack, Margaret A. | Date: [1989]
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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--.

    Hertz, Johann Daniel, 1693-1754. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 45473i
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    Coming off tranquillizers and sleeping pills / Shirley Trickett.

    Trickett, Shirley. | Date: 1991
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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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    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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