The peril in the air / The Peps Co.

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[1913]
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The peril in the air / The Peps Co. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Booklet advertising Peps tablets for coughs and colds. Sensational cover (orange and blue) of a skull-faced Death in a swirling dark cloud over a city from which terrified inhabitants are fleeing on foot, in cars, bicycles and horse-drawn carriages. Refers to deaths during heavy fogs in cities, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, colds, cough, sore throat, pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza, pleurisy, pneumonia and factory cough.

Publication/Creation

[Leeds] : [The Peps Co.], [1913]

Physical description

16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

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Notes

Cover title.
Dated June 1913.

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in “In the Air”, Wellcome Collection, 19 May – 16 October 2022

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