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Patent medicines

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  • Morison's Pills : the wonderful power of the pills exemplified showing the same person before and after having taken a dose : dedicated with profound respect to all true disciples of Esculapius, more especially to the Royal College of Physicians / by Pilula Rhubarbus, M.D., Professor of Phlebotomy to the Royal Islington abattoirs : sung by Mr. Fitzwilliam.
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : you may want it / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • Advertisement : Here is lately arrived a doctor of physick, who by his long study and experience, both at home and in foreign countries, has acquir'd as learned and safe a method in curing all diseases incident to humane bodies ... as the nature of the distemper will permit.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Jonathan Jay : humorous patter song / written, composed and sung by Clifford Grey.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures all diseases of the stomach, liver & blood : small doses, prompt effect.

    | Date: [1879?]
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment

    • Books

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

    World's Dispensary Medical Association | Date: [1903]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

    R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset | Date: 1880-1944 | Reference: MSS.5661-5673
    • Books
    • Online

    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.

    Spilsbury, Francis. | Date: [1775?]
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