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Materia medica

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Images about Materia medica

59 images from works
  • Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • Ambrosia altera.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: working area in the materia medica stores. Photograph.
  • Ambrosia altera.
  • 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.
  • Ambrosia altera.
  • A physician, in his surgery and workshop, examining a urine flask and referring to a book. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.
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Works from the collections

480 works

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Therapeutics
Pharmacy
Pharmacopoeia
Pharmacology
Materia Medica
Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Botany, Medical
Medicine
Pestles
Mortars