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<p>Advertisement issued by Goodrich Drug Company promoting various branded remedies for coughs and the common cold.</p>

The big trio : for coughs, colds, croup, etc. and to prevent pneumonia.

<p>Box file containing 33 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Ostermilk (infant formula food), Farex 3 Cereal (baby food), Ostocalcium tablets (vitamin D and calcium supplement), Ostomalt (vitamin A, B, C, D, calcium and malt extract tonic supplement), Glaxo penicillin, Glaxo streptomycin, Strepolin, Dimycin, Suavitil (neurosis), Syrup Minadex (vitamins A, D and iron : blotter shows Glaxo manufacturing laboratory), Tricloryl (sleep disorders), Trimovate (steroid-responsive dermatoses : 1977),  Biotexin, Neobacrin (antibiotics), Zantac (dyspepsia, heartburn), Earcalm (otitis externa), Godfrey's Extract of Elder Flowers (skin emolient, shaving, insect stings), Steedman's Soothing Powders (teething), Goodrich Cough Remedy (antitussive), Goodrich Cold Breakers (common cold, influenza), Goodrich Catarrh, Cold and Croup Balm (croup, colds, pneumonia), Dr. Birley's compounds and syrups of free phosphorous (stress, hysteria, obesity, lumbago, sciatica, heart disease, scrofula, debility, pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchitis, quinsy, diphtheria, dyspepsia, constipation, flatulence, weak sight, neuralgia, pleurisy, eczema, skin diseases, 1901), Kruschen Salts (gout, rheumatism, eczma, liver and kidney diseases, uric acid in the blood, constipation), Nadisan (diabetes instead of insulin : B. Grimm & Co., Bangkok : 1959), Guy's Tonic Treatment (constipation, indigestion), Hall's liquid starch polish, Snowfire Glycerine Jelly (rough skin), Laxina (safe and mild laxative), Petrolax, Petrolax Compound, Petolax Alkaline (constipation), Surgery "Steromnia" Specialities (antiseptic dressings), Harris' Flu-Nips (influenza), Harris' Crown Cough Tablets (coughs).</p>

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The big trio : for coughs, colds, croup, etc. and to prevent pneumonia.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 42.

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