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  • A female apothecary mixing up a prescription for a child. Etching by G. Greux, 187-, after Q.G. van Brekelenkam.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Library with shelves of medical ceramics. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1954].
  • Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
  • Two surgeons treating two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeons' dishes are hanging from the ceiling. Line engraving by W. Kilian, 1652, after C. Ortz.
  • A scholar/apothecary mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar and writing down the remedy; an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
  • An apothecary in his shop examines the throat of a young female singer, an apprentice takes notes and other patients wait their turn. Line engraving by F. Bartolozzi after P. Longhi.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of J. Bell's pharmacy in the ground floor galleries. Photograph, c. 1928.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.
  • The old pharmacy of the hôpital Saint-Denis, France: ornate shelving with decorative china pharmacy jars and glass bottles. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.
  • A study in pharmaceutical elegance : Italian drug pot, XVIth Century.
  • A physician stirring medicine in a cup which is refused by a repulsed little girl, her mother stands behind her smiling. Mezzotint by J. Jervis, 1842, after W. White.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment, surrounded by medicinal plants. Engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • Interior of St. Stephens pharmacy, Venice. Watercolour, 1920.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A girl waiting for a pharmacist to make up a prescription. Photogravure, 1912, after J. Jendrassik, 1896.
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Drug jars and books on shelves surrounding a mantlepiece with a statue and a mirror. Photograph.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Italian pharmacy. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of a French pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: pharmacy shop. Steel engraving.
  • Venetian Albarello drug jar c 1590 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance.