About

Ars Medica is an independent editorial studio publishing photography and writing on the history of the apothecary — the bottles, jars, and labelled glass that carried the materia medica through the long century before industrial pharmacy.

Each piece in the collection is photographed, named, and dated. Latin labels and pharmacopoeial names are kept where they appear on the glass. The interest is in the dispensary as a record — of how plants entered medicine, and how medicine looked when it stood in a row.

The studio is small and independent, run out of New York. Contributions from readers help keep it going.