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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Colic drink / Alfred Parker.
Parker, Alfred.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Archives and manuscripts
Perspectives on Colic
Date: 1982-1993Reference: PP/KWI/D/7Part of: Kate Williams: archives- Books
Propempticon inaugurale de cephalalgia iliaco-haematitica. Vom Über-Kolck oder Ober-Colic / [Georg Ernst Stahl].
Stahl, Georg Ernst, 1660-1734.Date: [1698]- Books
Colica Pictonum : taking the cure in Bath / Audrey Heywood.
Hetwood, Audrey.Date: 1990- Archives and manuscripts
Colicines
Date: c.1960sReference: GC/177/B/2/3Part of: Fulton, Forrest