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  • A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • An apothecary publically preparing the drug theriac, under the supervision of a physician. Woodcut.