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Printed advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment, 'formerly prepared by Mr Thomas Singleton, Proprietor, Lambeth Butts; but now by his son, William Singleton, (sole proprietor) no 2, Union-Place, Lambeth aforesaid. The advertisement reads: This Ointment is of great Use in Inflammations, and all other Disorders of the Eyes; and is calculated for all Scorbutic Humours in any Part of the Body, drawing out the Humour, and is no Ways repellant ...

Advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment

32 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 14 cm

Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Prescription books, account books, ledgers, and note book.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

<p>Advertising card for Rumford Chemical Works' Horsford's Acid Phosphate, prepared to the directions of Prof. E.N. Horsford of Cambridge, Mass. for indigestion, headache, night sweats of consumption, exhaustion, nervousness and hysteria. The front shows a portrait of a chubby young woman with curly blond hair wearing a frilly cap and dress (white with red stripes). She is wearing a string of pearls bearing letters spelling out: Rumford Yeast Powder. The background is black with red lettering graded to pink.</p>

Drug advertising. Box 84.

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

1 album (33 leaves, approximately 650 prints) : lithographs, printed in colours ; album 36.6 x 25.6 cm

Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.

xxiv, 33 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

A further account of the effects of Mr. Hauksbee's alterative medicine, as applied in the cure of the venereal disease : Being ten miscellaneous cases following, in the order of time, the thirty cases already printed. Taken from the register kept by Mr. John Watson, apothecary ... With remarks upon the cases by John Watson. Also a preface, containing an account of the author's attempts for introducing this medicine into publick use ... / By Francis Hauksbee.

Le vray Trésor de la vie humaine où l'on voit, comme il est possible de chasser les maladies sans incommoder les malades, par un Remède qui guérit sans nous nuire; et nettoye nôtre corps sans les user. Par François du Soucy; Escuier sieur de Gerzan. À Paris. Aux despens de l'autheur. MDCLIII. @An early 18th cent. transcript of a work not traced in the bibliographies. The two leaves of the 'Table' are by a different, but contemporary hand.

1 volume 3 bl. ll. + 156 pp. + 7 ll. last 5 bl.. 8vo. 211/2 x 111/2 cm. Original calf binding.

Du Soucy de Gerzan, François

Three accounts ledgers and one 'want book' kept by an unidentified grocer and druggist living in the Folkestone area

Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Medical Heritage Library

345 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Being done good : an amusing account of a rheumatic's experiences with doctors and specialists who promised to do him good / by Edward B. Lent, with a foreword by Charles M. Skinner.

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Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.

Du Soucy de Gerzan, François

Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Being done good : an amusing account of a rheumatic's experiences with doctors and specialists who promised to do him good / by Edward B. Lent, with a foreword by Charles M. Skinner.

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Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.

Du Soucy de Gerzan, François

Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Being done good : an amusing account of a rheumatic's experiences with doctors and specialists who promised to do him good / by Edward B. Lent, with a foreword by Charles M. Skinner.

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