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Leaflet that came in a card box which contained a bottle of 100 tablets of Kalms tablets. It gives a detailed breakdown of ingredients which included: hops powder, valerian, gentian and sucrose. It was revised in October 1995.

Drug packaging ephemera. Box 6.

Lanes Kalms : this leaflet tells you some important things about Kalms tablets / G.R. Lane Health Products.

Almanac advertising the Dr. Miles Nervine, Aspir-Mint, Dr. Miles Little Pills, Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, and Alka-Seltzer.

31 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 25 cm

Dr. Miles new weather almanac and handbook of valuable information 1938.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes a colour, multifold card from Schering AG from about 1970 on the theme of: The twelve days of Christmas. Also leaflets advertising Belladenal (tension), Bellergal (autonomic nervous disorders), Cafergot (migraine), Calcibronat (sedative), Calcium-Sandoz, Cedilanid (cardiac failure - where digitalis would be used), Optalidon (analgesic & sedative), Panthesine Balm (analgesic), Plexonal (sleep disorders, sedative, 1957), Santos Co (cough, 1969), Sandosten (urticaria, pruritus, 1958), Scillaren sandoz (glucoside of squill (cardiac affections), Nasacort (hayfever, 2009), Syrupus Ferri-Phosphates (1880?), Anovlar (ovulation control, contraception, 1962), Atophan (gout, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica), Medinal (insomnia), Veramon (dysmenorrhoea, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, colic), Arcanol (influenza, upper respiratory tract infections, gonorrhoea), Nerisone Forte (dermatoses, psoriasis, eczema), Palaprin Forte (rheumatic disorders), Primodos (amenorrhoea, pregnancy test, 1960) and Primolut N (menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, premenstrual tension, 1960).

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 85.

Thin card box which contained 8 tablets of Sominex sleeping tablets. Directions for dosage are on the reverse.

Drug Packaging ephemera. Box 12.

Sominex : promethazine hydrochloride : a night time sleep aid : clinically proven to telieve occasional sleeplessness : 8 doses / Thornton & Ross Ltd.

1 folded sheet 4 pages : illustrations ; 38 x 63 cm

The Eno messenger : carrying the message of good health to the ends of the Earth : no. 1 / J.C. Eno Limited.

One of a series of leaflets (songbirds) issued by Ciba advertising the tranquilizingagent Doriden, containing thalidomide and used to aid sleep. Showing a picture of a blackbird perched on a branch, also featuring the poem "Welcome to Day" by Thomas Heywood (1573-1641).

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 26

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : colour ; 20 x 51 cm folded to 20 x 25 cm

Welcome to the new day : morning freshness assured after restful sleep with Doriden.

Box file containing 32 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes Aventyl (depression, broad spectrum mood enhancer), Cologel (constipation), Doloxene Compound-65 (pain relief), Diethylstilbestrol (menopause), Keflex (broad spectrum antibiotic), Lextron (anaemia), Liquacillin (penicillin), Loridine (antibiotic, 1968), Pectocel (pectin and kaolin: diarrhoea), Lilly Pulvules (index chart), Seconal sodium (sedative and hypnotic), Tuinal, Sodium Amytal, Amytal (sedation, hypnosis : barbiturates), Tes-Tape (urine and sugar test tape), Tuamine Sulphate (vasoconstrictors), Elliman's Embrocation (pain relief), Harrower's Polycrines (pluriglandular formulas in Sanitablets), Eno's Fruit Salt (laxative: constipation AND diarrhoea), Vitabene (tonic), Trophysan (I.V. nitrogen provision), Zanedo ( adrenalin, ephedrin), Zanedo-mite (Ephidrin), Zadolan, Zanedo Asthma-Pulver.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 34.

Booklet advertising Dr. Miles Nervine, Alka-Seltzer and Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills.

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Modern household hints / Miles Laboratories, Inc.

Sleep disturbance and hypnotic drug dependence / edited by Anthony D. Clift ; with a foreword by Sir Martin Roth.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. German and Austrian drug advertising from the 1920s and 1930s arranged alphabetically by product name. Collected by Isidor Fischer, Viennese gynaecologist and medical historian.

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Lanes Kalms : this leaflet tells you some important things about Kalms tablets / G.R. Lane Health Products.

Dr. Miles new weather almanac and handbook of valuable information 1938.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 85.

Sominex : promethazine hydrochloride : a night time sleep aid : clinically proven to telieve occasional sleeplessness : 8 doses / Thornton & Ross Ltd.

The Eno messenger : carrying the message of good health to the ends of the Earth : no. 1 / J.C. Eno Limited.

Welcome to the new day : morning freshness assured after restful sleep with Doriden.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 34.

Modern household hints / Miles Laboratories, Inc.

Sleep disturbance and hypnotic drug dependence / edited by Anthony D. Clift ; with a foreword by Sir Martin Roth.

Isidor Fischer ephemera. Box 2, Drug advertising (N-X).

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Lanes Kalms : this leaflet tells you some important things about Kalms tablets / G.R. Lane Health Products.

Dr. Miles new weather almanac and handbook of valuable information 1938.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 85.

Sominex : promethazine hydrochloride : a night time sleep aid : clinically proven to telieve occasional sleeplessness : 8 doses / Thornton & Ross Ltd.

The Eno messenger : carrying the message of good health to the ends of the Earth : no. 1 / J.C. Eno Limited.

Welcome to the new day : morning freshness assured after restful sleep with Doriden.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 34.

Modern household hints / Miles Laboratories, Inc.

Sleep disturbance and hypnotic drug dependence / edited by Anthony D. Clift ; with a foreword by Sir Martin Roth.

Isidor Fischer ephemera. Box 2, Drug advertising (N-X).

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