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Pharmacy marks, prescription notation and dispensing symbols.
Symbolwise records what these marks denote and does not give medical guidance. Where a symbol's meaning is jurisdictional — and much pharmacy labelling is — the record names the jurisdiction.
These records say so themselves — the setting appears in the symbol's own reviewed description or in one of its documented meanings.
A crossed loop for a weight.
Its a documented meaning places it there: “…the number in lower-case Roman numerals, so a prescription read the quantity after the unit — the reverse…”
A serpent coiled around a stemmed bowl, marking pharmacy.
Its description places it there: “…serpent coiled around a stemmed bowl, marking pharmacy”
A letters-and-numbers marking showing a medicine's controlled-drug schedule.
Its summary places it there: “…visible edge of a regime that reaches from the prescription pad to the pharmacy safe”
A capital D, optical power as a reciprocal metre.
Its summary places it there: “…optical work, and its value is why spectacle prescriptions add up: put two lenses together and their dioptres…”
A thermometer or snowflake marking a medicine's required storage conditions.
Its summary places it there: “Medicine packaging carries storage markings — a thermometer with…”
A pharmacist's mortar and pestle carved on a monument.
Its a documented meaning places it there: “Remains in current use as the trade sign of pharmacy, which makes it one of the few occupational monument…”
A bowl with a grinding club resting in it, marking pharmacy and compounding.
Its description places it there: “…with a grinding club resting in it, marking pharmacy and compounding”
A green cross marking a pharmacy, in much of Europe.
Its description places it there: “A green cross marking a pharmacy, in much of Europe”
A capital letter R with a stroke across its leg, heading a prescription.
Its description places it there: “…letter R with a stroke across its leg, heading a prescription”
The R with a stroke.
Its summary places it there: “The symbol opening a prescription, conventionally read as an instruction to take”
A coloured jar in the window.
Its summary places it there: “…vessel of coloured liquid displayed to identify a pharmacy”
Latin abbreviations giving the dosing instructions on a prescription.
Its description places it there: “…abbreviations giving the dosing instructions on a prescription”
If you can describe what you saw as well as where, say both: “winged skull on a gravestone” narrows a list of 12 to a handful.