Chloride of lime : for destroying infection and all offensive effluvia : prepared by Watkins, surgeon, and pharmaceutical chemist, 34, High Street, Saint Mary-le-bone.

Date:
[between 1840 and 1849?]
  • Ephemera

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Description

Leaflet advertising Watkins' chloride of lime for disinfecting sick rooms (during small pox, measles, cholera morbus, scarlet fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, malaria), bed linen, bed pans, toilets, drains, sewers, cess pools and washing down corpses after death.

Publication/Creation

St. Mary-le-bone [London] : W. Hunt, [between 1840 and 1849?]

Physical description

1 sheet ; 15 x 14 cm

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

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    EPH175
  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPH/175/33

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