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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 design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • A study in elegance : Deruta Albarello drug jar c 1505.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of pharmacy jars. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.
  • A man pounding a mixture with a pestle and mortar - an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
  • Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.
  • Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • 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.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription in his working room. Chromolithograph, 1901(?).
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A study in pharmaceutical elegance : Italian drug pot, XVIth Century.
  • Venetian Albarello drug jar c 1590 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Hispano-Moresque pharmacy. Photograph.
  • A surgeon treating a male patient's leg. Engraving.
  • Pharmacy jars: French decorative china jars; (with the French pharmacist M. Fialon?). Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • The interior of a busy pharmacy. Line engraving by C. Le Roy.
  • A lady, with her maid, consults an apothecary in his workroom, for a love philtre (?). Coloured lithograph, c.1850.
  • An interior of a stylish pharmacy with the pharmacist serving a customer and an apprentice at work with the pestle and mortar. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1825.
  • 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 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.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of pharmacy jars. Photograph, c. 1920.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.