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Pills

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  • Baldwin's Herbal Female Pills : removes obstructions arising from cold and other causes, recommended for all disorders and irregularities of the female constitution during "change of life".
  • Baldwin's Bilious and Liver Pills : cures sickness, dizziness, shoulder pains, yellowness of the eyes, skin, brown or yellow coated tongue, bile, jaundice, constipation, piles, all liver troubles.
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Baldwin's Herbal Blood Pills: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.
  • Baldwin's Sarsaparilla and Peruvian Bark: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • Vomiting and sickness, artwork
  • Baldwin's Herbal Blood Pills: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
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  • view Vomiting and sickness, artwork
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    Vomiting and sickness, artwork

    Mary Rouncefield
  • view A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.
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    A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

    | Date: 1994 | Reference: 677306i
  • view Baldwin's Sarsaparilla and Peruvian Bark: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.
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    Baldwin's Sarsaparilla and Peruvian Bark: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 668926i
  • view Specification of Reuben Jacob Jordan : pills.
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    Specification of Reuben Jacob Jordan : pills.

    Jordan, Reuben Jacob. | Date: 1860
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    An analgesic pill in a medicine bottle; advertising "Contra Schmerz" analgesic. Colour lithograph by Donald Brun, 1950.

    Brun, Donald, 1909-1999. | Date: [1950] | Reference: 575570i
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