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Animals dressed as gentlemen and ladies survey the medical advertisements on a wall. Coloured wood engraving by J. Grandville, 1853.

Asian medicine in the West. Colour photograph by Chila Kumari Burman, 2004.

A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

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Cooking recipes you will like.

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Nature's warnings : notes on the home treatment of sickness.

What to eat and how to eat : a book of information regarding the diet, to which has been added some endorsements of the tonic treatment of stomach trouble.

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Advertising - Medicine

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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Cooking recipes you will like.

Asian medicine in the West. Colour photograph by Chila Kumari Burman, 2004.

Nature's warnings : notes on the home treatment of sickness.

What to eat and how to eat : a book of information regarding the diet, to which has been added some endorsements of the tonic treatment of stomach trouble.

Advertising - Medicine

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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Cooking recipes you will like.

Asian medicine in the West. Colour photograph by Chila Kumari Burman, 2004.

Nature's warnings : notes on the home treatment of sickness.

What to eat and how to eat : a book of information regarding the diet, to which has been added some endorsements of the tonic treatment of stomach trouble.

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