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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.

Two-sided advertising insert for Laboratorios Endo de Mexico's Hycodan antitussive for coughs and Sistral tablets for depression and other mental illness.

Drug advertising ephemera : Mexico.

Basta una tableta de: Sistral, tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico : Hace una sola cosa y la hace bien... los cerillos prducen flamas, el Hycodan alivia la tos / Laboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.

Advertising blotter printed in black and green on white advertising Bengue & Co. Ltd.'s Dr. Bengué's Balsam ("pronounced "ben-gay") for coughs, headache and muscular pains.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 18.

Find the hidden germs : they are waiting to catch anybody who does not protect himself ... / Bengue & Co.

Advertising card promoting Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge, active against dyspepsia and Jayne's Expectorant, used in the treatment of coughs and colds.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 31

Health for the grown person : health for children : Jaynes Expectorant.

Poster printed in black and red. It includes a prominent endorsement of the medicine's effect on whooping cough dated 18 November 1890 by W.J. Blakey, a paper merchant of Stockton-on-Tees. Burgon & Co. were based at 2 and 4 High Street in Oldham. Licoricine was also sold by Thompson's Drug Stores in Manchester Road and at 4, Mumps.

Licoricine : the best medicine for chest affections, coughs, colds, &c. / Burgon & Co.

Allegorical cartoon showing a warrior woman wearing a long green dress, helmet and jewels around her neck and bosom slaying a seven-headed dragon. On every neck of the beast is the name of a disease. The woman is holding a bloodied sword in her right hand and an oversized Valda Pastilles tin lid as a shield. Probably a press advertisment cut from a larger sheet. There is a calendar for July 1911 to June 1912 on the reverse.

Influenza and colds ephemera. Box 1.

Influenza, sore throat, cold, asthma, hoarseness, cough.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 11.

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations (part color) ; 22 cm

Angier's Emulsion heals the lungs, helps digestion / Angier Chemical Co. Ltd.

Advertising insert for Hoechst's Novocaina (intravenous analgesic, antispasmodic, antihistamine, anti-arrhythmia and ganglionic blocker) and Ticarda for coughs and a range of respiratory diseases. It shows an 8 armed Thai deity on one side and a barking dog on the other.

Intravenosa ... Novocaina : Tos ... Ticarda / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Farmaceutica Hoechst Mexicana, S.A.

Advertising insert for Organon's Becantal for coughs and Predasmal for asthma.

Tos, tos, tos, tos Becantal ... : Despeja los bronquios Predasmal antiasmático polivalente ... / Organon.

Leaflet issued by Chesebrough Manufacturing Company advertising Complex-D, an antitussive agent containing chloroform.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 26

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : monochrome (blue) ; 13 x 19 cm folded to 13 x 10 cm

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

Basta una tableta de: Sistral, tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico : Hace una sola cosa y la hace bien... los cerillos prducen flamas, el Hycodan alivia la tos / Laboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.

Find the hidden germs : they are waiting to catch anybody who does not protect himself ... / Bengue & Co.

Health for the grown person : health for children : Jaynes Expectorant.

Licoricine : the best medicine for chest affections, coughs, colds, &c. / Burgon & Co.

Influenza, sore throat, cold, asthma, hoarseness, cough.

Angier's Emulsion heals the lungs, helps digestion / Angier Chemical Co. Ltd.

Intravenosa ... Novocaina : Tos ... Ticarda / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Farmaceutica Hoechst Mexicana, S.A.

Tos, tos, tos, tos Becantal ... : Despeja los bronquios Predasmal antiasmático polivalente ... / Organon.

Complex-D : 8-hour cough formula.

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Drug advertising ephemera. Box 10.

Basta una tableta de: Sistral, tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico : Hace una sola cosa y la hace bien... los cerillos prducen flamas, el Hycodan alivia la tos / Laboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.

Find the hidden germs : they are waiting to catch anybody who does not protect himself ... / Bengue & Co.

Health for the grown person : health for children : Jaynes Expectorant.

Licoricine : the best medicine for chest affections, coughs, colds, &c. / Burgon & Co.

Influenza, sore throat, cold, asthma, hoarseness, cough.

Angier's Emulsion heals the lungs, helps digestion / Angier Chemical Co. Ltd.

Intravenosa ... Novocaina : Tos ... Ticarda / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Farmaceutica Hoechst Mexicana, S.A.

Tos, tos, tos, tos Becantal ... : Despeja los bronquios Predasmal antiasmático polivalente ... / Organon.

Complex-D : 8-hour cough formula.

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