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Poster advertising a machine which expels contrary humours from sick people when used with a special tea. It claimed to cure rheumatic pain, paralysis, gout, urethral problems, stomach ulcers, cancers, sexually transmitted diseases and ensured a painless birth. Includes testimonials from 1792 and year 11 of the Republic. Dated 7 Ventôse, an onze (de la République).

Jacques Boyol, inventeur d'une machine, servant à guérir ou à soulager les maux qui n'ont pû l'être, ni par les remèdes ni par les eaux minérales : à ses concitoyens.

Pamphlet advertising herbal remedies from British Institute of Herbal Remedies. Including their Celabs, Charabs, Painrite and B.I.H.R. Activated Celery Powder.

Rheumatism banished! : how to treat your rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, neuritis, gout and get new health this safe, easy way ... / G.R. Lane.

Traitement des maladies du cœur, de la goutte et du rhumatisme à Bourbon-Lancy / par A. Piatot.

Leaflet advertising the rheumatism cure invented by "Mr.Dean" and on sale from no.9 Bell Square, St. Martin's-le-Grand in the City of London.

Dean's specific embrocation : a sure cure for the gout, rheumatism, lumbago, &c.

Vesalius on China-root : extracts from the letter of Andreas Vesalius to Dominus Joachim Roelants, written at Ratisbon, 13th June 1546 / [Andreas Vesalius] ; translated from the latin by Benjamin Farrington.

Medical Heritage Library

v, 112 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy, or, Passages in the life of a hydropathist / by a veteran ; with illustrations by a recruit.

On Gravel, calculus & gout : chiefly an application of Professor Liebig's physiology to the prevention and cure of these diseases / by H. Bence Jones.

A new and successful method of treating all forms of rheumatism and gout / by John Beadnell Gill.

4 unnumbered pages, 232 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Miscellanea. The first part : containing I. A survey of the constitutions and interests of the Empire, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Holland, France and Flanders, with their relation to England, in the year 1671, II. An essay upon the original and nature of government, III. An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland, IV. Upon the conjuncture of affairs in October, 1673, V. Upon the excesses of grief, IV. [i.e. VI.] An essay upon the cure of the gout by moxa / by Sir William Temple.

Display card printed in yellow, red and black on white card with a large bottle of the product in the foregound and a sprightly old gentleman in his striped pyjamas waving and smiling behind it. The salts are supposed to cure gout, lumbago, rheumatic pains, eczema, constipation, and liver & kidney disorders.

Drug Advertising Ephemera. Box 42

1 broadside : color illustrations ; 28 cm

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Jacques Boyol, inventeur d'une machine, servant à guérir ou à soulager les maux qui n'ont pû l'être, ni par les remèdes ni par les eaux minérales : à ses concitoyens.

Rheumatism banished! : how to treat your rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, neuritis, gout and get new health this safe, easy way ... / G.R. Lane.

Traitement des maladies du cœur, de la goutte et du rhumatisme à Bourbon-Lancy / par A. Piatot.

Dean's specific embrocation : a sure cure for the gout, rheumatism, lumbago, &c.

Vesalius on China-root : extracts from the letter of Andreas Vesalius to Dominus Joachim Roelants, written at Ratisbon, 13th June 1546 / [Andreas Vesalius] ; translated from the latin by Benjamin Farrington.

Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy, or, Passages in the life of a hydropathist / by a veteran ; with illustrations by a recruit.

On Gravel, calculus & gout : chiefly an application of Professor Liebig's physiology to the prevention and cure of these diseases / by H. Bence Jones.

A new and successful method of treating all forms of rheumatism and gout / by John Beadnell Gill.

Get "that Kruschen feeling" : it's the regular morning dose that does it! / E. Griffiths Hughes Ltd.

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Jacques Boyol, inventeur d'une machine, servant à guérir ou à soulager les maux qui n'ont pû l'être, ni par les remèdes ni par les eaux minérales : à ses concitoyens.

Rheumatism banished! : how to treat your rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, neuritis, gout and get new health this safe, easy way ... / G.R. Lane.

Traitement des maladies du cœur, de la goutte et du rhumatisme à Bourbon-Lancy / par A. Piatot.

Dean's specific embrocation : a sure cure for the gout, rheumatism, lumbago, &c.

Vesalius on China-root : extracts from the letter of Andreas Vesalius to Dominus Joachim Roelants, written at Ratisbon, 13th June 1546 / [Andreas Vesalius] ; translated from the latin by Benjamin Farrington.

Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy, or, Passages in the life of a hydropathist / by a veteran ; with illustrations by a recruit.

On Gravel, calculus & gout : chiefly an application of Professor Liebig's physiology to the prevention and cure of these diseases / by H. Bence Jones.

A new and successful method of treating all forms of rheumatism and gout / by John Beadnell Gill.

Get "that Kruschen feeling" : it's the regular morning dose that does it! / E. Griffiths Hughes Ltd.

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