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William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.

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

Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.

An apothecary composed of the attributes of the trade. Line engraving.

A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.

The pharmaceutical journal and transactions.

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

Pharmacie Centrale and Bureau d'admission des malades, Paris: with a lettered key floor and street plan. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1807.

This is to certify that ... of ... has been duly elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain : incorporated by royal charter A.D. 1843, charter confirmed by Parliament 1852.

An elaborate metal mortar, German, 1545. Etching by W.W. McCarty.

Billard, Michael

Drug information sources : a world-wide annotated survey / compiled and edited by J.P. Revill.

Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Danske farmacihistoriske arbejder efter året 1800 : en kortfattet oversigt med bibliografi.

The Bulletin of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

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Billard, Michael

Drug information sources : a world-wide annotated survey / compiled and edited by J.P. Revill.

Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Danske farmacihistoriske arbejder efter året 1800 : en kortfattet oversigt med bibliografi.

The Bulletin of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.