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  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • News note : new for combined hydrocortisone and antibiotic therapy : EF-Cortelan with neomycin eye ointment.
  • News note : new for combined hydrocortisone and antibiotic therapy : EF-Cortelan with neomycin eye ointment.
  • News note : new for combined hydrocortisone and antibiotic therapy : EF-Cortelan with neomycin eye ointment.
  • News note : new for combined hydrocortisone and antibiotic therapy : EF-Cortelan with neomycin eye ointment.
  • News note : new for combined hydrocortisone and antibiotic therapy : EF-Cortelan with neomycin eye ointment.
  • Payne's Cavalry Ointment : heals and toughens the skin : as used by the British Army / J.H. Payne.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • A girl playing at being a nurse by rubbing "Vick" ointment on the chest of a doll. Colour lithograph.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • Have handy Sherriffs Ointment : the great cure for eczema, erysipelas, herpes, nettlerash, itch, bad legs, old sores, cuts. It is healing, soothing and antiseptic / Alexander Sherriffs.
  • A physician in traditional costume holding an ointment jar is supervising an apprentice who is mixing a concoction in a pot over a fire, Germany 1500. Heliotype.
  • A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
  • Scabiosa columbaria L. Dipsacaceae. Small scabious. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘The roots either boiled or beaten into powder and so taken, helps such as are extremely troubled with scabs and itch, are medicinal in the French-pocks [syphilis], hard swellings, inward wounds ...’ The genus name comes from the Latin word scabies, meaning ‘itch’. According to the Doctrine of Signatures, the rough leaves indicated that it would cure eczematous skin. However, the leaves are not really very rough... Not used in herbal medicine at the present time except in Southern Africa where it is used for colic and heartburn, and the roots made into an ointment for curing wounds (van Wyk, 2000). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Patent Medicines
  • A foppish man looking at an advertisement for Sloan's Liniment. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Tobias curing his father's (Tobit) eyesight three others and a dog look on. Line engraving by J. Jenkins after A. Carracci.
  • 50,000 women wanted to try this Magician beauty roller free / Oatine Company.
  • De la méthode ïatraleptique, ou observations pratiques sur l'efficacité des remèdes administrés par la voie, de l'absorption cutanée dans le traitement de plusieurs maladies internes et externes; et sur un nouveau remède [pour les] maladies vénériennes et lymphatiques / [Jean André Chrestien].
  • "Pride of London" Paste : London's greatest success!.
  • Curb cure for horses and cattle : directions for use : to be rubbed in at intervals of two to three days till applied eight to ten times.
  • Newmarket embrocation, or White oils : recommended for allaying swellings, inflammation, sprains, bruises, stiff joints, &c., &c. ... / Alfred Parker.