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  • A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.
  • A medical practitioner examining the throat of a nervous woman via the anus. Cut paper silhouette by Elkan.
  • A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.
  • Elixir Equilene, tonico circulatorio del sistema venoso : Neurastenia : Fosfan / Azpeco Chemical Co.
  • Elixir Equilene, tonico circulatorio del sistema venoso : Neurastenia : Fosfan / Azpeco Chemical Co.
  • Post card : nerve troubles cured by the latest scientific discovery.
  • Post card : nerve troubles cured by the latest scientific discovery.
  • A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.
  • Destendo : sedante intelectual y emotivo / Spedrog Peruana S.A.
  • Destendo : sedante intelectual y emotivo / Spedrog Peruana S.A.
  • Antianemil ... : Testimedul / LADA, Laboratorios Aliados de América, S.A.
  • Antianemil ... : Testimedul / LADA, Laboratorios Aliados de América, S.A.
  • En la arteriosclerosis, hipertonia, angina de pecho, y espasmos vasomotores, Iocapral vasorregulador : Luminal ... Luminal Sodico ... Luminaletas / Winthrop Products Inc.
  • En la arteriosclerosis, hipertonia, angina de pecho, y espasmos vasomotores, Iocapral vasorregulador : Luminal ... Luminal Sodico ... Luminaletas / Winthrop Products Inc.
  • To combat nervousness and fatigue : "Beminal" with phenobarbital tablets and liquid / Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Limited.
  • To combat nervousness and fatigue : "Beminal" with phenobarbital tablets and liquid / Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Limited.
  • Terapia eficaz en la hipertensión ... Panlittol "Armour"... : Alimentando la sangre y el sistema nervoso ... Meduphites Glanules / The Armour Laboratories.
  • Terapia eficaz en la hipertensión ... Panlittol "Armour"... : Alimentando la sangre y el sistema nervoso ... Meduphites Glanules / The Armour Laboratories.
  • Phytin "(calcium magnesium salt of inositol hexaphosphoric acid) : a nerve food and general tonic containing about 22 per cent. of organically combined assimilable and non-toxic phosphorus : blotter no.2 / The Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
  • Phytin "CIBA" : A powerful nerve & general tonic / Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • A man in pyjamas restored to health holding a bottle of the medicine Plasma Phosphatado. Colour lithograph, 1917.
  • Alcachol ... : Serocytine : anemias, clorosis, neurastenia, pretuberculosis ... / Laboratoires J. Combefreyroux ; agentes para Cuba Brunschwig & Co.
  • Alcachol ... : Serocytine : anemias, clorosis, neurastenia, pretuberculosis ... / Laboratoires J. Combefreyroux ; Brunschwig & Co.
  • Alcachol ... : Serocytine : anemias, clorosis, neurastenia, pretuberculosis ... / Laboratoires J. Combefreyroux ; agentes para Cuba Brunschwig & Co.
  • Alcachol ... : Serocytine : anemias, clorosis, neurastenia, pretuberculosis ... / Laboratoires J. Combefreyroux ; Brunschwig & Co.
  • Vipladin : estimulante de los aparatos circulatorio y respiratorio ... / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Vipladin : estimulante de los aparatos circulatorio y respiratorio ... / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Estimulando la energia nerviosa : Phosphagón / The Arlington Chemical Company.
  • Estimulando la energia nerviosa : Phosphagón / The Arlington Chemical Company.