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Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.

The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.

An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.

A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a pharmacist for a remedy; the pharmacist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers, with fatal results. Line block.

Ekins pharmacy, Melbourne, Victoria: the shop seen from the street, with the pharmacist and his family standing outside. Photograph by E.C. Waddington, ca. 1883/1884.

A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.

A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.

Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.

A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.

A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.

Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter / by Margery Rowe and G.E. Trease.

A Philadelphia "pharmaceutist" in the old West - William Barker Chapman (1813-1874) / by Glenn Sonnedecker.

Apotheker Dr Alfred Silber aus Reutlingen / von Armin Wankmüller.

An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.

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Burroughs, Silas Mainville

Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter / by Margery Rowe and G.E. Trease.

A Philadelphia "pharmaceutist" in the old West - William Barker Chapman (1813-1874) / by Glenn Sonnedecker.

Apotheker Dr Alfred Silber aus Reutlingen / von Armin Wankmüller.

An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.