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Laxatives

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  • The Counter Adjunct : No. 291 (new series) March, 1916 : The Morning Salt.
  • Dr. Worthington's "Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine" : the great animal puzzle.
  • 'Byno-Cascada' : the ideal tonic laxative and nutrient digestive : April 1916.
  • Focus on obstetrics in general practice : Duphalac.
  • Focus on paediatrics in general practice : Duphalac.
  • Increase your sales with this effective display : if you would like this display material, please mark order card with a cross in the spaces indicated.
  • The Eno messenger : carrying the message of good health to the ends of the Earth : no. 1 / J.C. Eno Limited.
  • Focus on obstetrics in general practice : Duphalac.
  • Duphalac : revolutionises the management of constipation.
  • Welcome to spring and an all-time high demand for 'Milk of Magnesia' : the idea antacid-laxative.
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Works

    • Ephemera

    Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

  • view [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].

    | Date: [Between 1990 and 1999?]
    • Pictures

    Limonade Purgative de Rogé au Citrate de Magnésie: product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 547803i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
  • view Sagradol : active-lubricating-palatable.
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Sagradol : active-lubricating-palatable.

    | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
    • Books

    Die Canones des Pseudo-Mesue : eine mittelalterliche Purgantien-Lehre Übersetzung und Kommentar im Anhang die Versio antiqua in der Druckfassung von 1561 / Sieglinde Lieberknecht ; mit einem Geleitwort von Fritz Krafft.

    Pseudo-Mesuë | Date: 1995
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