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  • An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.
  • 'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • Dear colleague, we recently announced details of the HIV/AIDS summer campaign in the June issue of HEADLINES ... / Dr. Spencer Hagard, Chief executive, Health Education Authority.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • 'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • A painting book for boys and girls / presented by Carter's Little Liver Pills.
  • Ephemera collection: advertisement for Bournvelle cocoa.
  • Perihel ultraviolet, infrared : brings health & the sun to your home / Perihel Limited.
  • Crescent cook book / [Crescent Manufacturing Company].
  • Ephemera Collection: QV: Advertising: 1850-1
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    Healthy eating for mothers and mothers to be / Boots.

    Boots Company. | Date: 1995
    • Books

    Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

    Slater, Clara E., Mrs. | Date: [1921?]
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    The new Alpine Sun and Kromayer quartz lamps : pioneers in 1905, the standard of the world today July 1924 / Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.

    Hanovia Chemical & Manufacturing Company. | Date: 1924
    • Ephemera

    Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.

    Lowther, Stephen, 1955- | Date: [1999]
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    Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.

    Fennings, Alfred. | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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