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Late victorian chromolitho trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills and Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. The card is one of a series. This one shows a water mill in the snow by moonlight, mostly in pale blue. The Compound was supposed to cure ovarian troubles, inflammation, ulceration, falling and displacement of the womb... and is particularly adapted to the change of life... faintness, flatulency, destroys all cravings for stimulants... bloating, headaches, nervous prostration, general debility, depression and indigestion. The liver pills (laxative) cured constipation, biliousness and torpidity of the liver. The Blood purifier was supposed to cure scrofula, rheumatism, cancerous humour, erysipelas, canker, salt rheum and skin diseases, all of which were due to "impurities of the blood".

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 65.

Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound... : is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population / Lydia E. Pinkham.

Advertising insert for 3 of Glaxo Laboratories Ltd.'s new products for PMT, menstrual disorders and the menopause: Premenostril, Ammenostril and Menostril.

Drug advertising ephemera : Cuba. Box 1

3 nuevas preparaciónes de Glaxo : Premenostril, regulador de la tensión premenstrual : Ammenostril, regulador de la amenorrea : Menostril, regulador del síndrome menopáusico / Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., Greenford, Inglaterra.

Advertising insert for a range of 3 hormone products, Endo-Estromone, Endo-Virosterone & Endo-Ovatrin available in ampoules for menopause problems, menstrual disorders, loss of libido, erectile dysfunction.

1 sheet : colour (red and black) ; 24 x 17 cm

Endo hormonas : Endo-Estromone, hormona folicular ovarica natural, Endo-Virosterone, hormona masculina natural, Endo-Ovatrin, hormona gonadotropa y gland ovarica total / Endo Products, Inc. ; representante exclusivo: Ethical Products, S.A.

Advertising insert for a range of 4 hormone products, Endo-Estromone, Endo-Virosterone, Endo-Ovatrin & Endo-Lutromone, available in ampoules for menopause problems, menstrual disorders, loss of libido, erectile dysfunction.

1 sheet : monochrome (purple) ; 25 x 16 cm

Endo hormonas : Endo-Estromone, hormona folicular ovarica natural, Endo-Virosterone, hormona masculina natural, Endo-Ovatrin, hormona gonadotropa y gland ovarica total, Endo-Lutromone, hormona natural del corpus luteum / Endo Products, Inc. ; representante exclusivo: Ethical Products, S.A.

Late victorian chromolitho trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills and Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. The card is one of a series. This one shows a young girl with blonde, curly hair in a red headress and indigo top with lace trimmings smiling and looking upwards and to her right against a yellow background. The Compound was supposed to cure ovarian troubles, inflammation, ulceration, falling and displacement of the womb... and is particularly adapted to the change of life... faintness, flatulency, destroys all cravings for stimulants... bloating, headaches, nervous prostration, general debility, depression and indigestion. The liver pills (laxative) cured constipation, biliousness and torpidity of the liver. The Blood purifier was supposed to cure scrofula, rheumatism, cancerous humour, erysipelas, canker, salt rheum and skin diseases, all of which were due to "impurities of the blood".

Drug advertising. Box 65.

31 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait, maps ; 22 cm

Mended while you wait / [Gablin et Cie.].

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 66.

Pursuant to our policy of repeatedly reminding the physician of the exact composition of our products, we again submit the formula of Ergoapiol (Smith) ...  / Martin H. Smith Company.

Advertising insert for Gedeon Richter (América)'s Sintestrina ampoules and tablets forhypoplasia, genital infantilism, amen

Drug advertising ephemera : Mexico.

Sintestrina Richter : estrogena sintetica con ventajas sobre la foliculina ... / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.

32 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 15 cm

Ladies' note book and calendar : compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Colour advertising card for Brown's iron bitters. Issued by the Brown Chemical Co. of Baltimore (probably about 1890) it shows a portrait of a dark-haired woman in a frilly black coat viewed through broken glass - to give the impression of a headache. A panel below her states that they cure malaria, dyspepsia and 'female infirmities' (menstrual disorders?)

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Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound... : is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population / Lydia E. Pinkham.

3 nuevas preparaciónes de Glaxo : Premenostril, regulador de la tensión premenstrual : Ammenostril, regulador de la amenorrea : Menostril, regulador del síndrome menopáusico / Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., Greenford, Inglaterra.

Endo hormonas : Endo-Estromone, hormona folicular ovarica natural, Endo-Virosterone, hormona masculina natural, Endo-Ovatrin, hormona gonadotropa y gland ovarica total / Endo Products, Inc. ; representante exclusivo: Ethical Products, S.A.

Endo hormonas : Endo-Estromone, hormona folicular ovarica natural, Endo-Virosterone, hormona masculina natural, Endo-Ovatrin, hormona gonadotropa y gland ovarica total, Endo-Lutromone, hormona natural del corpus luteum / Endo Products, Inc. ; representante exclusivo: Ethical Products, S.A.

Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound... : is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population / Lydia E. Pinkham.

Mended while you wait / [Gablin et Cie.].

Pursuant to our policy of repeatedly reminding the physician of the exact composition of our products, we again submit the formula of Ergoapiol (Smith) ... / Martin H. Smith Company.

Sintestrina Richter : estrogena sintetica con ventajas sobre la foliculina ... / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.

Ladies' note book and calendar : compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Brown's iron bitters : the best tonic / Brown Chemical Co.

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Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound... : is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population / Lydia E. Pinkham.

3 nuevas preparaciónes de Glaxo : Premenostril, regulador de la tensión premenstrual : Ammenostril, regulador de la amenorrea : Menostril, regulador del síndrome menopáusico / Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., Greenford, Inglaterra.

Endo hormonas : Endo-Estromone, hormona folicular ovarica natural, Endo-Virosterone, hormona masculina natural, Endo-Ovatrin, hormona gonadotropa y gland ovarica total / Endo Products, Inc. ; representante exclusivo: Ethical Products, S.A.

Endo hormonas : Endo-Estromone, hormona folicular ovarica natural, Endo-Virosterone, hormona masculina natural, Endo-Ovatrin, hormona gonadotropa y gland ovarica total, Endo-Lutromone, hormona natural del corpus luteum / Endo Products, Inc. ; representante exclusivo: Ethical Products, S.A.

Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound... : is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population / Lydia E. Pinkham.

Mended while you wait / [Gablin et Cie.].

Pursuant to our policy of repeatedly reminding the physician of the exact composition of our products, we again submit the formula of Ergoapiol (Smith) ... / Martin H. Smith Company.

Sintestrina Richter : estrogena sintetica con ventajas sobre la foliculina ... / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.

Ladies' note book and calendar : compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Brown's iron bitters : the best tonic / Brown Chemical Co.

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