A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.

Ruck's improved portable medical galvanic apparatus : sold wholesale and retail / by William Ruck.

By her majesty's letters patent : comfort for invalids : 8, Denmark St., Soho London / J. Alderman.

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Booklet advertising Stockwell Hygienic Co. Ltd.'s range of contraceptive items ("birth control requisites") and how to use them. These include: condoms, pessaries, douche cans, whirling sprays, dutch caps, enemas, 'female pills', safety sponges, 'Capulvas' rejuvenating capsules, slimming tablets, elastic hosiery, surgical belts and trusses. The shop fronts at 80 Stockwell Road, 172 Upper Tooting Road, London and 10 London Road, West Croydon are shown, all with both Gents and Ladies entrances. Includes the original envelope it was sent in, dated 16 August 1940.

How to limit your family : a manual of birth control / by Mrs. Ada Willis ; preface by H. Taylor.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes adverts for: an Acroamatic belt (Dr. Yeldall, 5 Red Lion Square, 1796), socks made from shamoy leather which prevented chillblains (Seares and Harbin, St. Giles, London), general clothing from: Gedaliah Gatfield of Newgate Street, London, the Birmingham Drapery Company, Boycot and Lucas of Kidderminster, Burch of Great Russell Street, London, Simeon Heveningham of Cheapside, London, John Platt of Leadenhall Street, London, Stott's Warehouse on Fleet Street, London, Henry Swaysland of Poultry, London, Cue and Rutt of Fenchurch Street, London, John Maunder of Nottingham and New Street, Covent Garden, Samuel Tudman of Ludgate Hill, London, J.O. Roberts of Bridgnorth, Edwards & Walker of Bridgnorth, F. & E. Hughes of Bridgnorth, Foster and Usher of King Street, Cheapside, London, Thomas Gibbons of Upper East Smithfield, London and High Street, Shadwell, J. Sutton of Smock Alley, Spittle Fields, London, Edward York of Coleman Street, London, Isaac Day of Maiden Lane, London, Robert Grammer of Manchester and the Strand, London, Charles Marsden of Kingsland Road and Gracechurch Street, London, Anatomical stays (1813), J. Horlor of Chiswell Street, London (all 17th and 18th century), jewellers including: Love & Co. of Old Bond Street, H.H. Faiers & Co. of Ludgate Hill, London and I. Pearson of Fleet Street, London (1720). More modern leaflets etc. from the Scottish Council for Health Education ('Right dress', illustration by Fougasse, 1962), Kendall Co. (UK) Ltd. of Braunton, Devon (stockings), electric irons from the Electric Appliance Society of Northern California, Doré military tailors of Conduit Street and George Street, London, Rose Brothers of Duke Street, London, Capper, Son & Co. of Fenchurch Street and Gracechurch Street, Jenyns and Avro corsets, Boutique 77 stockings (1972), Undercover throwaway pantees (1975), Top-Liner corsets (1961), titanium shorts, bands, tape, Rakuwa necklaces, supporters, bracelets (using cell ionization to relax muscles after sport, 2004), Thermastrap, Elastastrap, Therma-Ice Wrap (adjustable supports for sport etc., 2010).

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Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

Patent for an "improved apparatus to be used as spinal, abdominal, and pelvic truss supports".

14 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Specification of William Edward Newton : truss supports.

iv, 2247 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

A catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : also of aseptic hospital furniture including a large number of original designs manufactured and sold by Down Bros., Ltd.

8 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

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How to limit your family : a manual of birth control / by Mrs. Ada Willis ; preface by H. Taylor.

Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

Specification of William Edward Newton : truss supports.

A catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : also of aseptic hospital furniture including a large number of original designs manufactured and sold by Down Bros., Ltd.

Specification of George Henry Birkbeck : trusses or bandages, and pessaries to be used therewith.

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How to limit your family : a manual of birth control / by Mrs. Ada Willis ; preface by H. Taylor.

Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

Specification of William Edward Newton : truss supports.

A catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : also of aseptic hospital furniture including a large number of original designs manufactured and sold by Down Bros., Ltd.

Specification of George Henry Birkbeck : trusses or bandages, and pessaries to be used therewith.

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