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  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A person discovering that they have been transformed into several kinds of vegetables the morning after taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.
  • A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.
  • A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.
  • A box of Aspro (analgesic and flu remedy) among falling autumn leaves. Colour lithograph after Damour, ca. 1930 (?).
  • A love sick man taking some of Doctor Hymen's pills to try and cure himself. Watercolour painting.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A bear wearing a hat and a cloak, selling pills to a group of country folk in Leipzig. Watercolour.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.
  • A quack doctor irresponsibly dispensing his potions. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A theatrical figure in a tuxedo supporting a pestle and mortar as a hat and holding a large pill. Watercolour painting.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • A collection of 'anti-boche' - ie. anti-German - medicine bottles, next to a scorpion about to be pulverised. Lithograph.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • Aspirin tablets in tubes and boxes. Colour lithograph.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A doctor visiting an Irish patient whose wife queries the recommendation to take one pill three times a day. Wood engraving after D. Wilson, 1903.
  • Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
  • A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A horrified man discovering that as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills, his nose has turned into a carrot. Coloured lithograph.
  • An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.