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A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers the younger.

Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.

Product labels for the pharmacist Duroziez of Paris. Line engraving.

A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.

Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Line engraving by B. Audran, the elder, after E. Le Sueur.

A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F. Hardy.

Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1772, after B. West, the elder.

An itinerant medicine vendor sitting on a donkey with his boxes of medicines, a monkey sits on his shoulder and a boy in a fool's costume blows a trumpet. Watercolour by M. Calisch.

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.

Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.

A physician recommending some medicine to a young female patient. Coloured lithograph, 1853, by H. Garnier, 1836, after J.L. Canon.

A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself. Coloured aquatint after M.W. Sharp.

De specificorum remediorum cum corpusculari philosophia concordia. Cui accessit dissertatio de varia simplicium medicamentorum utilitate et usu / [Robert Boyle].

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Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.

A physician recommending some medicine to a young female patient. Coloured lithograph, 1853, by H. Garnier, 1836, after J.L. Canon.

Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1772, after B. West, the elder.

A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself. Coloured aquatint after M.W. Sharp.

De specificorum remediorum cum corpusculari philosophia concordia. Cui accessit dissertatio de varia simplicium medicamentorum utilitate et usu / [Robert Boyle].