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Humphrey Bogart wearing his characteristic coat and hat and smoking, with a message about how he always wore appropriate clothing to protect himself; an advertisement for condoms and safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs and the Senate Department for Women, Youth and Family in Berlin. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674381i- Archives and manuscripts
Address and Obligant Book Women
Date: c.1923-1937Reference: DGH1/5/27/12Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Address and Obligant Book Women
Date: 1916-1923Reference: DGH1/5/27/10Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Ephemera
All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belt : for suffering men & women : for nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, rheumatism, indigestion, sleeplessness, ladies ailments &c. it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.
Date: [1893?]- Ephemera
Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines and drugs, and simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's energizing feather-weight electric body belt / Dr. Carter Moffat.
Moffat, Carter.Date: [1891?]