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Common Cold

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Respiratory Tract Infections

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Images from the collections

Images about Common Cold

244 images from works
  • Immunity.
  • Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil : for internal & external use. For sale by all druggists.
  • Bei Hypertonie, Arteriosklerose, Angina pectoris sowie bei Herzneurosen und allen Gefässirritationen im Alter u. Klimakterium, Theominal : das dominierende Spasmolyticum und Vasoregulans... / Bayer.
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : you may want it / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
  • [Leaflet advertising G.R. Lane of Gloucester's Olbas Oil, used to relieve flatulence, colds, respiratory problems and headaches].
  • Beecham's school quiz : animal quiz.
  • Conium maculatum : Vertigo-Heel.
  • Baldwin's Herbal Female Pills : removes obstructions arising from cold and other causes, recommended for all disorders and irregularities of the female constitution during "change of life".
  • 'Pectamol' Linctus : a new anti-tussive agent from the B.D.H. Research Laboratories : saving time in influenza, in colds : Fluscorbin.

Works from the collections

283 works

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Fluscorbin : Vitamin C + quinine massive dose : attack treatment of colds and influenza.

    | Date: [between 1958 and 1969?]
    • Ephemera

    We recommend Veganin : for the treatment of headache, neuralgia, migraine, dysmenorrhoea, fibrositis and other painful conditions : also colds, influenza and fevers : Veganin tablets.

    | Date: [1954]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Gripe, resfrios : Cequigripe Roussel / Laboratorios Roussel Perú S.A.

    | Date: [1958]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

    Mr. Thorley. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Afecciónes catarrhales, Pulmomail : Afecciónes nasales, Naso-Vac / Laboratorios Maillot, S.A.

    | Date: [1949]
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Related topics

Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Antitussive Agents
Influenza, Human
London
Cough
Analgesics
Influenza, Human
Nonprescription Drugs
Nasal Decongestants

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