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  • Try A. Davis Ashley's Honey Balsam, for colds, coughs & croup.
  • Try A. Davis Ashley's Honey Balsam, for colds, coughs & croup.
  • Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.
  • Cough! Cough! Cough! Hack! Hack! Hack! Bark! Bark! Bark! : why do you cough?.
  • Splendid value 6d from Carters.
  • De plantis Aegypti liber. In qvo non pavci, qvi circa herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quorum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad vsum medicine admodum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt ... / Accessit etiam liber de balsamo, aliàs editus. Prosperi Alpini.
  • Splendid value 6d from Carters.
  • Two very useful and effective preparations for your home : Dr. Bengue's Balsam, Diadermine French beauty cream.
  • Try A. Davis Ashley's Honey Balsam, for colds, coughs & croup.
  • Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.
  • Faith Whitcomb's Balsam cures coughs and colds.
  • Two very useful and effective preparations for your home : Dr. Bengue's Balsam, Diadermine French beauty cream.

Works from the collections

24 works

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.

    | Date: [between 1850 and 1899?]
    • Books

    Histoire naturelle de l'Égypte, 1581-1584 / par Prosper Alpin [sic] ; traduit du latin, et présenté par R. de Fenoyl ; annotation de R. de Fenoyl et S. Sauneron ; index de Marcelle Desdames.

    Alpini, Prosper, 1553-1617. | Date: 1979
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

    Scandolisti, Giovanni Antonio | Date: c. 1500 | Reference: MS.730
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Two very useful and effective preparations for your home : Dr. Bengue's Balsam, Diadermine French beauty cream.

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Try A. Davis Ashley's Honey Balsam, for colds, coughs & croup.

    | Date: [between 1850 and 1899?]
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Related topics

Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Egypt
Honey
Cough
Common Cold
New Bedford
Croup

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