Depictions of early pharmacies.
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Pharmaceutic processes in arabic manuscript.

The production of pharmaceuticals in an Islamic apothecary, manuscript 1224.

Image in manuscript of Tacuinum sanitatis.

Woodcut from 14th century Avicenna manuscript.

Woodcut from Hortus Sanitatis, Augsberg, 1496.

Woodcut from Hortus Sanitatis, Strasbourg c. 1497.
[Coloured by Adam McLean]

Woodcut of seller of theriac from Hieronymus Braunschweig, 1500.
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