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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.

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, 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.

The chemical decompositions of the London Pharmacopeia / by Charles Mingay Syder.

The elements of materia medica : comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines / by Jonathan Pereira, F.R.S. & L.S.

The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D.

A manual of pharmacy / by William Thomas Brande.

Pharmacopœia collegi mediocorum Regis et Reginae in Hibernia.

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The chemical decompositions of the London Pharmacopeia / by Charles Mingay Syder.

The elements of materia medica : comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines / by Jonathan Pereira, F.R.S. & L.S.

The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D.

A manual of pharmacy / by William Thomas Brande.

Pharmacopœia collegi mediocorum Regis et Reginae in Hibernia.