Advertisement : Here is lately arrived a doctor of physick, who by his long study and experience, both at home and in foreign countries, has acquir'd as learned and safe a method in curing all diseases incident to humane bodies ... as the nature of the distemper will permit.

Sailors keeping well by taking "Neverill" remedy. Colour lithograph by R.A., ca. 1900.

Oh this wretched hay fever, I must try the ... Carbolic Smoke Ball : gives instant relief.

The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.

Nostrums : the great advertisement song / written & sung by E.W. Royce ... ; music by W. Meyer Lutz ; illustrated by Alfred Conconen.

A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by

Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.

A man wearing a 'german corn plaster', which has caused his leg to shrink. Coloured reproduction of an etching.

A mother who believes that an "Infants preservative" (medicine for infants) will preserve her child from danger in a collapsing house. Coloured lithograph, 183-.

Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.

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