Drug advertising ephemera : Pre-1850. Box 2.

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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves advertising medicinal products. They are arranged alphabetically by manufacturer as far as can be determined. Often all that is mentioned is where the product is to be bought (at lots of coffee shops, toy shops, pubs and book shops. Mostly in London). They are from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries and are mostly a mixture of newspaper advertisements, leaflets and handbills including: Sirop and pastilles de Thridace (Abbadie, ca. 1825), Adams's Solvent (bladder and kidney stone, 1772), Elixir Purgatif (laxative, Allaize, Paris), Allen's Anti-Bilious Pills (dyspepsia, flatulence, T. Allen), an ague plaister (1728), drops for hypochondriack melancholy and hysterick affections (in women) 1728, Infant's preservative (John Atkinson, 1813), Dr. Scott's Pills for gout, biliousness and nervous disorders (W. Bacon, 1774), Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops (rheumatism, cholick, ague, fever, coughs, colds, 1728, 1741), Bath Restorative (1779), Angelicke Pillen (laxative, Johan Hartman Bayer), Essential Salt of Lemons (scurvy, William Bayley, perfumer, Cockspur Street, London), Dr. Smith's Purifying Pills (B.T. Bennett, 1813), Balsam for the Head, Rheumatism, Wounds and Nerves (wounds, lice, gum disease, menstrual disorders, malaria, Andreas Biorkgren), Kruyder Balsem ( Daniel van Bragt), Brande's Bronchial (coughs, influenza, bronchitis, 1848), Sugar Plumbs for worms and anodyne necklaces (B. Burchell, 1789), Velno's Vegetable Syrup (J. Burrows, Fletcher & Hodson, 1771), Butler's Pectoral Elixir and Balsamic Lozenges (cough, asthma, 1822), Ching's Patent Worm Lozenges, Richards' Safe Epsom Salts (1822), Dr. Hugh Chamberlen's Famous Purging Pills (laxative), Lucerna Lucis or Lamp of Light (blindness, cataracts, T. Clark, 1723), Clarke's Viper Drops (pain relief, 1754), Cook's Rheumatic Pills (gout, rheumatism, scurvy, Henry Cook, 1803), Court's Female Pills headaches, green sickness), Oriental Vegetable Cordial (B. Cornwell, William Woodburn, 1790), Cundell's Improved Balsam of Honey (cough, colds, asthma, consumption, Henry Cundell, 1797), Dr. Daffy's Cordial (1685), Daffey's Elixir (ague, consumption, dropsy, stone, gout, rheumatism, King's Evil, 1728), Dalby's Carminative (infant bowel disorders, J. Dalby, 1774), White's Chymical Fever Tincture (Dicey and Co., Bow Church Yard, 1788), Genuine Bengal Antibilious Pills (Dr. Dick), Lettuce Lozenges (cough, asthma, consumption, Prof. Duncan), Eden's Pills, Ointment and Hooping Cough Mixture (1849), Mr. Eeda's ague cure without quinine (1728), Baines's Eye Water (eye disorders, G. Firmin), Freake's Tincture of Bark (ague, fever, A. Freake, 1790), French's Sarsaparilla and Camomile Pills (W.A. French,1849), Panacea (gout, stone, rheumatism, worms, Dr. gardner, after 1795), Glass's Magnesia (1789), Dr. Benjamin Godfrey's General Cordial (the bloody flux, 1751), Pectoral Lozenges of Tolu and Balsam of Tolu (T. Greenough, 1781), Grimstone's Medicated Eye Snuff (cataract, deafness, polypus, 1831), Maredant's Drops (antiscorbutic, John Hayman), Samaritan Water (chilblains, inflammation, wounds, bruises, R. Hayward, 1790), Magnesia Alba (Thomas Henry, 1772), Dr. Higham's Worm Plaister (intestinal parasites, malaria, fever), Pectoral Balsam of Honey, Tincture of Centaury, Tincture of Heath Valerian and Lavender Troches (Sir John Hill, 1773, 1813), Italiaanse Pillen, or Urbanus Pillen (Philibertus Hoctin), a salve from the widow Hofje (Amsterdam), Holland's Balsam of Spruce (cough, colds, influenza, asthma, tuberculosis, Charles Holland, 1841), Hypo Drops (melancholy in men, vapours in women, Mrs. Holt), Dr. Howell's Powders (epilepsy, 1790), Hunter's Purifying Elixir (purifies blood, expels mercury from the bones, Wade's Medicinal Warehouse,1785), Hunter's Restorative Balsam of Life and Health (nervous disorders, 1790), Dr. Anderson's Scot's Pills (James Inglish, 1793), Dr. Jackson's Celebrated Vegetable Bitters(indigestion, laxative, dyspepsia, 1849, William M. Tileston, Boston), Dr. James's Analeptic Pills (rheumatism, colds, constipation, menstrual disorders, Francis Newberry, 1789, 1790).

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1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.

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