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The quack's song / written by F.C. Burnand ; music by W. Meyer Lutz ; sung ... by Edward Terry in F.C. Burnand's extravaganza "Camaralzaman.".

Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.

The Queen's gift / Dr. Williams Medicine Co.

Sailors keeping well by taking "Neverill" remedy. Colour lithograph by Ribi, ca. 1900.

A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

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Printed advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment, 'formerly prepared by Mr Thomas Singleton, Proprietor, Lambeth Butts; but now by his son, William Singleton, (sole proprietor) no 2, Union-Place, Lambeth aforesaid. The advertisement reads: This Ointment is of great Use in Inflammations, and all other Disorders of the Eyes; and is calculated for all Scorbutic Humours in any Part of the Body, drawing out the Humour, and is no Ways repellant ...

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Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

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R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

<p>Advertising card for Rumford Chemical Works' Horsford's Acid Phosphate, prepared to the directions of Prof. E.N. Horsford of Cambridge, Mass. for indigestion, headache, night sweats of consumption, exhaustion, nervousness and hysteria. The front shows a portrait of a chubby young woman with curly blond hair wearing a frilly cap and dress (white with red stripes). She is wearing a string of pearls bearing letters spelling out: Rumford Yeast Powder. The background is black with red lettering graded to pink.</p>

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Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

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Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

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Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

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