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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Caprin (rheumatism, arthritis), Ferfolic, Fergluvite (anaemia), Rabro tablets (ulcer), Visclair(respiratory decongestant), Adetate (depression), Olothorb capsules, Stolic (hypertension), Tyrozets (sore throat).

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 89.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes products by Cadbury's and Fry's.

Drinks ephemera : Cocoa and chocolate. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes skincare / beauty leaflets from the Erno Laszlo Institute in New York (1967), microdermabrasion (Xpressions, Lewisham, 2010), Nivea Soft moisturising cream (Decf. 2010), Aspinall's Neigeline, Dermatine (Nye Brothers), Menolan, Gauntlet cream (Donald Warren Limited), Endocil cream (Organon Laboratories Ltd (1955?), Zambesia Botanica Kigelia africana sausage tree skin cosmetics (2011), Skin Doctors' cosmeceuticals (2009), V-nal Cream (Cress Ltd.), Youth (BeautyWorksWest XI Limited : 2015?), Wedderspoon's 'Queen of the Hive' natural skin care collection (manuka honey and bee venom), Rejuvabolic anti-aging cream (Nature's Plus : 2014?), Syno-Vital hyaluronan, Hiorac, Oilatum Junior (Stiefel, a GSK company)

Skin care ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Alexander's Health Tonic Pills (1890s?), Allen & Hanburys' Food (invalids, aged, convalescence, 1898), Allen & Hanburys' Infants Food (1893), Allen & Hanburys' Malted Farinaceous Food for infants, Bynol (cod liver oil and malt tonic), Capriton tablets (common cold, 1966), Choledyl (bronchitis, asthma, 1966), Cresolene (whooping cough, 1891), Dequadin (mouth & throat infections), Guanimycin (diarrhoea), Hazol (nasal decongestion), Penicillin Chewing Gum (1949), Piriton (hay fever), Sednine (cough), Triptafen-DA (depression, anxiety, 1966), Softab (contact lens disinfectant), Corangil (angina pectoris), Salvitae (acidosis, colds, influenza, intestinal toxemia, rheumatism, gout, lithaemia, faulty metabolism, toxemias of pregnancy), Ames reagents (urine tests), Clinitest, Clinistix (reagent strips for diabetes), Labstix (urine tests), Bili-Labstix, Urobilistix, Acetest, Ketostix (reagent strips for urine tests), Ammen's cough syrup (cough, colds, croup, sore throat, whooping cough), Andrews Liver Salt (playing card, song sheet : dyspepsia), Sagradol (laxative emulsion : constipation, Angier Chemical Company), Angier's Emulsion, Angiers Supavite, Angiers Junior Aspirin.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

Box file containing 50 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. From 1935 to 1947.

Publishing ephemera. Box 8.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: The Vegetarian Society cookery school (1991/2 brochure), Vegetarian eating (Tesco, 2002), vegetarian travel guides (Vegetarian Guides Ltd., 2002), vegetarian information (McDonald's Corporation, March 2004), National Vegetarian Week 2012, Vegusto food products and services.

Vegetarianism ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes carbon monoxide poisoning prevention (British Gas, 2009).

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 4.

Box file containing 25 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Great British Bioscience Festival (2014), 'Can you explain this?' science writing (Europe PubMed Central : 2013), NHS National Institute for Health Research, clinical research, Dementias and neurodegeneration (DeNDRoN), 'Ear, nose and throat', Haematology, Neuroscience Research Institute (University of Manchester), 'Dynamic drivers of disease in Africa', Moredun Bioservices, R2HC (Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises : Wellcome Trust, UK Department for International Development), Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, AMRC (Association of Medical Research Charities : 2010), UK Bioindustry Association (2014), www.centreofthecell.org, CEDAR (Centre for Diet and Activity Research (2012), CAMI (Coalition Advancing Mutipurpose Innovations).

Biomedical research ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing 22 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves.

Laboratory equipment ephemera. Box 8.

Box file containing 29 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves .Includes: Sea Foam (salt? 1890s?).

Food ephemera : Salt, herbs, spices. Box 1.

Includes reports on smallpox and vaccination from: the Royal Jennerian Society (1807), Central Committee at Paris (1802), Cow-Pock Institution and Foundling Hospital (Dublin 1810), National Vaccine Establishment (London 1809, 1811, 1816, 1819), Delegazione Apostolica di Perugia (1842), Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmund von (?) Deschau (1805), the Analytical Physician (Boston) for February 1847 on consumption and can it be cured?, medicines prepared by Kelley & Son, how to prevent typhoid fever, leaflets on chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV, gentital warts, genital herpes, non-specific urethritis (NSU), Pasante Healthcare Ltd.'s condoms, Unicef on dehydration (2006).

Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes sickle cell disease, sickle cell trait, haemophilia, HIV, AIDS, blood products, compensation for infection, travel insurance, fund raising (christmas cards, lotteries), wallet card stating haemorrhagic states (2009).

Haemophilia and sickle cell ephemera. Box 1.

Includes posters, handbills and newspaper cuttings mostly about Victorian / Edwardian freak shows. People featured had extremes of obesity (the Mammoth Lady, Elizabeth Armitage, Miss Lucie the Russian Fat Girl), skin diseases (young man "covered with scales"), were siamese twins (the Two-Headed Nightingale, Millie and Christine, the African Twins), dwarves (Harvey's Midges, Admiral Tom Trump, Colonel Dietrich Ulpts, Mr. Uffner's Royal American Midgets, Minnie Warren, General Tom Thumb (watched by Queen Victoria in 1857), Japanese Tommy (a black dwarf), General Mite, Millie Edwards, Edward Nino Hernandez - Metro, September 2010), giants (Pat O'Brien the Irish Giant, German Giantess, Joseph the German Giant, Albert Brough the English Giant, Captain Ureck the Hungarian Giant, Chang the Fychow Giant, Herr Winkelmeier), phenomally strong (American Samson), had hand and foot deformities (Lobster Claw Lady, 1896), tattoos (Flo Riley), hypertrichosis (Mexican Julia Pastrana, 1862, the Russian hirsute Kostroma People, 1874).

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Joseph Amesbury's patents (curing deformities, weaknesses etc. : 1841), bill from Friedrich Gustav Ernst, orthopaedic mechanician (80 & 82 Charlotte Street, London : 1910), Rudolf von Laban's dance gymnastics (Birmingham, 1920s?), Chiropractors, Chiropractors' Association of British Columbia (membership certificate 1942), Osteopathy, Qi-netics, Rolfing, shiatsu, t'ai chi chuan, yoga, The Active Health Clinic (John Bell & Croyden, London).

Physical Therapies (various) ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Whitmore's fish, game, poultry (West Bromwich, 1930s?).

Food ephemera : Meat and fish.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 53.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. From 1969 to 1973.

Publishing ephemera. Box 14.

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).

Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes a set of 50 cigarette cards issued by W.D. & H.O Wills Ltd. in packs of Capstan cigarettes in New Zealand in 1935 promoting road safety in cars, on bicycles, buses and trams, leaflets on seat belt wearing, preventing whiplash, road safety, 'Certain medicines may affect your ability to drive' (Boots, THINK! : 2009), 'Drink, don't drive' (SCOOT 'none for the road' hotline), 'Road safety for pedestrians' Transport for London : October 2013), 'Injuries and emergencies' NHS National institute for Health Research (2014).

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 5.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Mostly advertising for products from: Food Supplement Company, Health & Diet Company Ltd., Forever Living Products (UK) Ltd., Four Seasons Health products, G & G Health Supplies, Garbai (1855), Pamela Gifford (consultant), Glaxo Laboratories (Ireland) Ltd.'s Minadex, Larkhall Natural Foods, Green Library, Guy's Tonic, Healthspan (Optiflex Glucosamine & Chondroitin), HB Healthy Body Products, Healthcrafts Ltd., Healthlife, Health Innovations Ltd. (Glycosport). These feature: aloe vera, jojoba oil, Dead Sea minerals, gingko biloba (Idoloba) and mussel extract.

Food supplements ephemera. Box 4.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Breakthrough Breast Cancer, British Empire Cancer Campaign, Brooklyn Cancer Committee (fund-raising seal, 1947), Sir Ranulph Fiennes' Dyson Antarctica Solo expedtion to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer (1996), Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden (2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show).

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 2.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Lifebuoy Soap ('Let Lifebuoy protect your family's health! 1935?), Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap (for hands and bath), Lifebuoy's 'The game of clean hands and dirty hands' board game, Wright's Coal Tar Soap, D.W. Gibbs's Superfine Cold Cream Soap (1901? : "a marvellous remedy for eczema"), Vinolia Soap for sensitive skins (1892?), Plantol Soap (free from animal fats), Vaseline Soap, Soft Soap (Palmer & Co., Ltd., 1903).

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Hungary-Water Warehouse (Ludgate Hill, London, 1733) and the great Chymical Elixir (asthma and consumption, 1733), Treble-distilled Lavender Water (Henry Christian, Canterbury, 1813) with Dr. Hooper's Female Pills (Newbery and Sons, on the back), Austen's Forset Flower Cologne (1889), Hoyt's German Cologne, Murray & Lanman's Florida Water, Bloomsbury Hair (London, 2009).

Perfume ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes labels for: E.E. Dickinson & Co.'s Witch Hazel and related distributors, Farrell's Drug Store (Div. of Prairie Pharmacy, Inc. : Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin), Fleet Drug (Cleveland Ohio), Flemons & Marchant (Gingerette Essence), William Fowke & Son (Market Square, Stafford), Fowke & Aston (Market Square, Stafford), Kälberdurchfall-Tropfen (Eckart & Zimmermann, Nonnenhorn am Bodensee), Fullerton Drug Co. (Fullerton, North Dakota : linseed oil).

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 89.

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Skin care ephemera. Box 1.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

Publishing ephemera. Box 8.

Vegetarianism ephemera. Box 1.

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 4.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Biomedical research ephemera. Box 1.

Laboratory equipment ephemera. Box 8.

Food ephemera : Salt, herbs, spices. Box 1.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Haemophilia and sickle cell ephemera. Box 1.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Physical Therapies (various) ephemera. Box 1.

Food ephemera : Meat and fish.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 53.

Publishing ephemera. Box 14.

Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 5.

Food supplements ephemera. Box 4.

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 2.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Perfume ephemera. Box 1.

Pharmacy labels ephemera. Box 13.

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 89.

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Vegetarianism ephemera. Box 1.

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 4.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Biomedical research ephemera. Box 1.

Laboratory equipment ephemera. Box 8.

Food ephemera : Salt, herbs, spices. Box 1.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+30.

Haemophilia and sickle cell ephemera. Box 1.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Physical Therapies (various) ephemera. Box 1.

Food ephemera : Meat and fish.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 53.

Publishing ephemera. Box 14.

Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

Accident prevention ephemera. Box 5.

Food supplements ephemera. Box 4.

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 2.

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Pharmacy labels ephemera. Box 13.

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