A cock crowing on a swing, advertising "Gaba" tablets for singers, to soothe sore throat in colds or influenza. Colour lithograph by Paul Kammüller, 1918 (?).

Advertises the throat medicine for which Dr Emanuel Wybert brought the recipe from America in 1846 and in an influenza epidemic gave to a friend at the Goldene Apothek Basel (GABa), who named the remedy Wybertli. From 1917 it was manufactured in the form of Gaba/Wybert lozenges by GABA AG

The cock holds a tin of tablets lettered "Goldene Apotheke in Basel, Schweiz"

[Basel] : Gaba/Wybert, [1918?] ([Basel] : Graph. Anst. W. Wassermann)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 108 x 79 cm

Sänger! als Kenner empfehle ich Euch die Tabletten Wybert "Gaba". Kammüller Basel

M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 63, p. 42

Wellcome Collection 5135i