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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Alexander's Health Tonic Pills (1890s?), Allen & Hanburys' Food (invalids, aged, convalescence, 1898), Allen & Hanburys' Infants Food (1893), Allen & Hanburys' Malted Farinaceous Food for infants, Bynol (cod liver oil and malt tonic), Capriton tablets (common cold, 1966), Choledyl (bronchitis, asthma, 1966), Cresolene (whooping cough, 1891), Dequadin (mouth & throat infections), Guanimycin (diarrhoea), Hazol (nasal decongestion), Penicillin Chewing Gum (1949), Piriton (hay fever), Sednine (cough), Triptafen-DA (depression, anxiety, 1966), Softab (contact lens disinfectant), Corangil (angina pectoris), Salvitae (acidosis, colds, influenza, intestinal toxemia, rheumatism, gout, lithaemia, faulty metabolism, toxemias of pregnancy), Ames reagents (urine tests), Clinitest, Clinistix (reagent strips for diabetes), Labstix (urine tests), Bili-Labstix, Urobilistix, Acetest, Ketostix (reagent strips for urine tests), Ammen's cough syrup (cough, colds, croup, sore throat, whooping cough), Andrews Liver Salt (playing card, song sheet : dyspepsia), Sagradol (laxative emulsion : constipation, Angier Chemical Company), Angier's Emulsion, Angiers Supavite, Angiers Junior Aspirin.

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

Drug advertising ephemera.

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : colour ; 24 x 36 cm folded to 24 x 18 cm

From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

Leaflet issued by Burroughs Wellcome & Co. advertising Actifed, an antitussive agent active against the symptoms of the common cold, containing codeine. Front cover recites Shakespeare's poem 'Winter'.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 22

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : colour ; 20 x 26 cm folded to 20 x 13 cm

When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.

Advertising insert taken from the magazine, Revista medica Peruana for CIBA's Piribenzamina syrup for coughs, congestion and bronchial spasm.

Drug advertising ephemera : Peru, 1946-1958.

1 sheet : monochrome (brown) ; 25 x 17 cm

Una nueva y efectiva medida terapéutica para el tratamiento de la tos : Piribenzamina jarabe ... / CIBA.

One of a series of leaflets (Encyclopaedia of Superstitions by E. & M.A. Radford) advertising Actifed Compound Linctus, active against symptoms of the common cold, containing codeine. Showing a man being tended in bed by a woman, visited by a medical practitioner.

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : colour ; 17 x 22 cm folded to 14 x 22 cm

If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. A. Radford.

Letter issued by Delandale Laboratories Limited promoting Etophylate Syrup, used in the treatment of bronchospasms.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 30

Delandale Laboratories Limited : 24-hour control of bronchospasm.

Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

Letter issued by British Felsol Company, Limited promoting the use by medical professionals of Felsol, actve against asthma and bronchospasms.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 21

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) ; 21 x 28 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm

British Felsol Company, Ltd. "Wigton House," 206/212, St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1.

Diecut leaflet showing a man holding his hand to his mouth (as if to stifle a cough). When opened the hand is holding a spoon (with Actifed linctus in it presumably). The medicine contains: Tripoldine Hcl, Pseudoephedrine Hcl and Codeine Phosphate.

The prompt, potent way to relieve coughs and clear congestion : Actifed compound linctus / Wellcome Nigeria Ltd.

Postcard issued by British Felsol Company, Ltd. promoting free trials of Felsol, active against asthma and bronchospasms.

Kindly send me a physician's trial supply of "Felsol" and descriptive literature.

One of a series of leaflets (superstitious and traditional remedies) advertising Actifed Compound Linctus, active against symptoms of the common cold, containing codeine. Showing an American Indian Medicine Man attempt to cure an ailing man, who is being comforted by a woman.

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : colour ; 28 x 22 cm folded to 14 x 22 cm

When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.

Sprayse containing items of Allen & Hanburys Ltd.'s ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes items from a series using old prints of London streets, birds, butterflies, a blotter featuring vitamin D in Allenbury's foods with an ultraviolet health lamp (against rickets) and Allenburys Dextrin-Maltose (diarrhoea, milk allergy), Beconase (nasal spray: hay fever, 1978-80), Becotide (inhaler : asthma, 1980), Capriton (cold and influenza, 1966-9), Choledyl (bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, 1958, 1968-72), Dequadin lozenges and paint (antibiotic : oral thrush, Vincent's angina), Ethnine (coughs, 1954 "less constipating than morphine or codeine"), Piriex (coughs), Fentazin (tranquilizer : for anxiety, 1968-79), Ferrodic (iron tablets: anaemia, 1953, 1966), Calcydic (rickets, vitamin D deficiency, pregnancy, urticaria, 1953).

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 2.

One of a series of advertising cards ("The Anatomy of Accidents") promoting the analgesic Extil, advised for use when patient suffers bronchospasm. Showing a mock-up of a collision on a country lane between a car and an agricultural vehicle.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32

The anatomy of accidents. No.2, Incident in a country lane.

One of a series of leaflets (superstitious and traditional remedies) advertising Actifed Compound Linctus, active against symptoms of the common cold, containing codeine. Showing a woman tending to a young boy who is ill in bed, adapted from a fable contained within George Ewart Evans' 'The Pattern Under the Plough'.

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.

Una nueva y efectiva medida terapéutica para el tratamiento de la tos : Piribenzamina jarabe ... / CIBA.

If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. A. Radford.

Delandale Laboratories Limited : 24-hour control of bronchospasm.

Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

British Felsol Company, Ltd. "Wigton House," 206/212, St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1.

The prompt, potent way to relieve coughs and clear congestion : Actifed compound linctus / Wellcome Nigeria Ltd.

Kindly send me a physician's trial supply of "Felsol" and descriptive literature.

When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 2.

The anatomy of accidents. No.2, Incident in a country lane.

Actifed Compound Linctus provides rapid and effective relief : suppresses unproductive cough ...

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.

Una nueva y efectiva medida terapéutica para el tratamiento de la tos : Piribenzamina jarabe ... / CIBA.

If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. A. Radford.

Delandale Laboratories Limited : 24-hour control of bronchospasm.

Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

British Felsol Company, Ltd. "Wigton House," 206/212, St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1.

The prompt, potent way to relieve coughs and clear congestion : Actifed compound linctus / Wellcome Nigeria Ltd.

Kindly send me a physician's trial supply of "Felsol" and descriptive literature.

When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 2.

The anatomy of accidents. No.2, Incident in a country lane.

Actifed Compound Linctus provides rapid and effective relief : suppresses unproductive cough ...

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