Our information sheets are available here in the PDF format. If you are unable to print the information sheets, they are available by post. Please contact the Museum on 020 5772 2211 (museum enquiries only) or via email.

• Objects in the history of pharmacy »
• Developing treatments »
• History of the Society »
• Guidance for museums »

Click on the relevant title below to view the information sheet.

1. Drug preparation and extraction
2. Secundum artem - the skill of the apothecary and pharmacist
3. Liquid medicines and medicine bottles
4. Lozenges and pastilles
5. Suppositories, pessaries and bougies
6. Ointments, creams and plasters
7. Pills and pill-making
8. Powders and cachets
9. Capsules and tablets
10. Patent and brandname medicines
11. Balances, weights and measures
12. Dispensary bottles
13. Pharmaceutical symbols
14. English Delftware storage jars
15. Display glassware
16. Domestic medicine chests
17. Homoeopathy
18. Mortars
19. Prescription reading
20. Taking the medicine
21. Enemas
22. Lambeth's links with pharmacy

Our Developing Treatments display case focuses on the way that different medical conditions have been treated over time. Each year we examine three conditions from the earliest records to the present day. The display changes in March each year to mark National Science and Engineering Week.

Click on a topic below to access an information sheet for each topic that we have covered in the past:

• Asthma
• The common cold
• Gout
• Malaria
• Melancholia and mania
• Men
• Obesity
• Pain
• Poisons
• Syphilis
• Teething
• Whooping cough
• Women

To find out about visiting this and other displays, click here.

Click on the relevant title below to view information sheets about aspects of the Society's history.

The history of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
The Society's Coat of Arms
The Society's Motto
The Society's headquarters
History of the museum
Women and pharmacy