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Maison Labélonye Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, 19, place du Caire, Paris : Médicaments spéciaux approuvés par l'Académie Impériale de Médecine de Paris, etc.

Vegetable Matico injection : used in France successfully by the most distinguished physicians, and approved by the Medical and Imperial Council of Saint-Petersburg with permission to import it onto the whole of Russia, by decree of the Minister of the Interior dated September 27, 1860.

<p>A humorous allegory showing the requirements of people such as electioneering politicians, gossips, widows, lawyers etc., in the form of a picture of the shop of a Georgian vendor of patent remedies. The forms which the medicines take -- powders, pills, ointments, balsams etc.--are derived from mainstream traditional pharmacy, but the vendor is trying to claim added value by targeting them at the needs of particular groups of customers. In this example of rather laboured Georgian humour, the patent medicines offered are not cures for diseases at all but are cures for specific social situations such as overwork, loneliness, low esteem, networking needs, etc.</p>
<p>The words: "Physic for man and horse!! Daniel Drug, dealer in patent medicines" are above the shop door, "Kill or cure!!" on it; the vendor says "Will nobody buy? -Will nobody buy?" and his posters display the names of twenty potions for specific types of people. The subject appears to be the low-grade shop of a medicine vendor just starting out in business. Whereas established shops of this period had a panelled doorway with a fanlight above and bow windows to the sides, this one has a stable door, above it is a plain lintel, and at the sides are paper posters stuck on to a wooden framework fixed to the outside wall.</p>

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.6 x 32.4 cm

A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

The blue guide : advertising and promotion of medicines in the UK.

188 prints : process prints, printed in colours

Advertisements for pharmaceutical products, sent through the post to physicians in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Prints, 1940s-1960s.

German Nobel Prize winners for physiology and medicine. Six prints, 1954.

Iodated Syrup of Horse Radish cold drawn and concentrated in vacuum : the only medicinal syrup patented in France approved by the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris and by most of the medical celebrities.

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Maison Labélonye Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, 19, place du Caire, Paris : Médicaments spéciaux approuvés par l'Académie Impériale de Médecine de Paris, etc.

Vegetable Matico injection : used in France successfully by the most distinguished physicians, and approved by the Medical and Imperial Council of Saint-Petersburg with permission to import it onto the whole of Russia, by decree of the Minister of the Interior dated September 27, 1860.

A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

The blue guide : advertising and promotion of medicines in the UK.

Advertisements for pharmaceutical products, sent through the post to physicians in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Prints, 1940s-1960s.

German Nobel Prize winners for physiology and medicine. Six prints, 1954.

Iodated Syrup of Horse Radish cold drawn and concentrated in vacuum : the only medicinal syrup patented in France approved by the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris and by most of the medical celebrities.

Selling sickness : how drug companies are turning us all into patients / Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels.

Natures restorative: or, health-procuring spirit. / Made by John Pordage, physitian. Now publickly sold for a general good.

Lozenges and Powder of Medicinal Vegetable Charcoal by the Doctor Belloc ... : approved by the Academy of Medicine.

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Maison Labélonye Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, 19, place du Caire, Paris : Médicaments spéciaux approuvés par l'Académie Impériale de Médecine de Paris, etc.

Vegetable Matico injection : used in France successfully by the most distinguished physicians, and approved by the Medical and Imperial Council of Saint-Petersburg with permission to import it onto the whole of Russia, by decree of the Minister of the Interior dated September 27, 1860.

A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

The blue guide : advertising and promotion of medicines in the UK.

Advertisements for pharmaceutical products, sent through the post to physicians in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Prints, 1940s-1960s.

German Nobel Prize winners for physiology and medicine. Six prints, 1954.

Iodated Syrup of Horse Radish cold drawn and concentrated in vacuum : the only medicinal syrup patented in France approved by the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris and by most of the medical celebrities.

Selling sickness : how drug companies are turning us all into patients / Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels.

Natures restorative: or, health-procuring spirit. / Made by John Pordage, physitian. Now publickly sold for a general good.

Lozenges and Powder of Medicinal Vegetable Charcoal by the Doctor Belloc ... : approved by the Academy of Medicine.

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