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The Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : presents the latest information and best available advice and help concerning the health and happiness of baby / Dinneford and Company, Limited.

Display card with hinged cardboard stand on reverse. A dark haired woman in a blue dress looks through a doorway, orange light behind her, at a blond baby sleeping on its back in a cot, blue cover over it, white pillow underneath. Presumably advertising Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia.

1 broadside : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Sleeping peacefully.. thanks to Dinneford's.

31 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : presents the latest information and best available advice and help concerning the health and happiness of Baby.

Calendar blotter issued by Dinneford & Co. advertising Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia.

1 sheet : monochrome (brown) ; 10 x 20 cm

Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia : a clear and complete solution as manufactured in London for the past 100 years.

Magazine insert issued by Dinneford & Co. advertising Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia, used during pregnancy, and for infants suffering teething pains, croup, diarrhoea, indigestion, and thrush.

Why Dinneford's is different...

Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : the latest information and advice about baby.

Box file containing 35 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: DeWitt's Pills (diuretic stimulant, rheumatism, sciatica, backache, lumbago, rheumatic pain, stone), Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia (laxative, antacid, aperient, diarrhoea, biliousness, dyspepsia, napkin rash), DQV-K (penicillin in syrup), Distaquaine (penicillin), Distaval Forte (1958, sedation, insomnia. Includes thalidomide), Distivit (vitamin B12 peptide complex: pernicious anaemia), Solupen (penicillin G), Tensival (premenstrual tension), Doan's Backache Kidney Pills (1902. Do NOT contain calomel, mercury, arsenic, strychnine, bromides, opium, morphine), Doncaster Pharmaceuticals. Ltd.'s generic medicines offer (1981), Dr. P.O. Baldo's Celebrated Blood & Liver Pills (biliousness, haemorrhoids, indigestion, dysentery, coughs, colds), Dr. Dennis' System Renovator and Blood Purifying Syrup (dyspepsia, syphilis, malaria, rheumatism, sexually transmitted (mercurial) diseases, menstrual problems), Dr. Fenner's Capitol Bitters (flatulence, indigestion, malaria, fever, constipation, diarrhoea), Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief (pain relief), Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid (constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, liver complaint, malaria, rheumatism), Dr. Hand's Remedies for Children (teething problems, worms, diarrhoea, colic, cough, croup), Henry Andrews' Sarsaparilla, Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge, Dr, Jayne's Expectorant (coughs, asthma, sore throat, bronchitis, pleurisy, croup, whooping cough), Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills (constipation, dyspepsia).

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The Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : presents the latest information and best available advice and help concerning the health and happiness of baby / Dinneford and Company, Limited.

Sleeping peacefully.. thanks to Dinneford's.

Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : presents the latest information and best available advice and help concerning the health and happiness of Baby.

Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia : a clear and complete solution as manufactured in London for the past 100 years.

Why Dinneford's is different...

Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : the latest information and advice about baby.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 31.

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The Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : presents the latest information and best available advice and help concerning the health and happiness of baby / Dinneford and Company, Limited.

Sleeping peacefully.. thanks to Dinneford's.

Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : presents the latest information and best available advice and help concerning the health and happiness of Baby.

Dinneford's Pure Fluid Magnesia : a clear and complete solution as manufactured in London for the past 100 years.

Why Dinneford's is different...

Dinneford's dictionary for mothers : the latest information and advice about baby.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 31.

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