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Advertising - Drugs

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  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Advertisements for pharmaceutical products, sent through the post to physicians in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Prints, 1940s-1960s.
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    An advertisement of concern to the city and nati[on] : These are to signifie, that the famous and most approved lozenges, made by John Piercy, Gent. whose ability and skill is so well known, for these 27. years and upwards.

    Piercy, John, active 1665 | Date: [1665?]
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    Panchimagogum Febrifugum : Quae ducere oportet quo maximè natura. Vergit. eo ducere. Hip. Lib. I. Aphor. 21. Inprimis, you must take all at once, that is one sealed paper, in the pap of a rosted [sic] apple, as big as an hasel [sic] nut.

    | Date: [1675?]
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    At the Golden-Ball in Duke-Street in the Old-Artillery without Bishops gate, advice & medicines may be had of J. Spinke, physician.

    Spinke, John | Date: [1700?]
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    Advertisement of a powder which is a most safe and speedy help for the stone and gravel, and those miseries which attend them : as pain in the back, stoppage of urine, cholick, &c. of which, in short, take this impartial account.

    | Date: [1700?]
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    Just publish'd. Venus deceiv'd, or an account of the seat, and nature of a clap, or running of the reins in men and women; with its perfect cure : (tho' attended with the very worst of symptoms) in 24 hours time by external applications only.

    Wright, Andrew, active 1680 | Date: [1680?]
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