Works about the act or practice of calling public attention to a product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers, magazines, on radio, or on television. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
    

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An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.

'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Dear colleague, we recently announced details of the HIV/AIDS summer campaign in the June issue of HEADLINES ... / Dr. Spencer Hagard, Chief executive, Health Education Authority.

The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

Healthy eating for mothers and mothers to be / Boots.

Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

The new Alpine Sun and Kromayer quartz lamps : pioneers in 1905, the standard of the world today July 1924 / Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.

Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.

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Healthy eating for mothers and mothers to be / Boots.

Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

The new Alpine Sun and Kromayer quartz lamps : pioneers in 1905, the standard of the world today July 1924 / Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.

Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.

Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.