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Nonprescription Drugs - history

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    • Ephemera

    On the shelf : printed ephemera from the chemist's shop, 1890-1940 : 1 March - 29 May 1999 : 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 / Stephen Lowther.

    Lowther, Stephen, 1955- | Date: 1999
    • Books

    Lydia Pinkham : the legendary genius of the patent medicine trade / Frederick Pilcher, Jr.

    Pilcher, Frederick. | Date: 1941
    • Books

    Neurasthenic nation : the medicalization of modernity in the United States, 1869-1920 / by David G. Schuster.

    Schuster, David G. | Date: 2006
    • Books

    Some Yorkshire proprietaries / [A. Wright].

    Wright, Arthur. | Date: 1980
    • Books

    Pills, profits and propriety : the early pharmaceutical industry in Britain / E.M. Tansey.

    Tansey, E. M. | Date: 1995
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