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78 images from works
  • Lung tonic : coughs colds & chest troubles : suitable for children and adults : 1/3 & 2/-.
  • Lovely teeth kept lovely because.... Kolynos dental cream cleans in between.
  • Armstrong's Family Health Salve : the great antiseptic healing ointment.
  • Libby's milk with peaches / H.J. Ltd.
  • Rossetter's hair restorer / M.E. Irlande, Grenada Lodge, Stockwell Park Road, Brixton.
  • Grossmith's English violet cachous : convenient for pocket or handbag.
  • Chronoblock : prévention active : blocks 98% of major premature skin-ageing factors / RoC.
  • A confrontation between two figures, representing industrial diseases being challenged by health gained from use of Morris Evans' remedies. Colour lithograph incorporating a design by W. Mitford Davies.
  • Life to-day calls for Eno's : 2'6.
  • For odourless garlic... for multivitamins & minerals... : you're looking for Quest Vitamins / Quest Vitamins.
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Works from the collections

194 works

    • 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]
    • Pictures

    A healthy child as an advertisement for Ovaltine. Process print.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 21132i
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    • Online

    'Milk of magnesia' tablets relieve acid indigestion / Chas H. Phillips Chemical Co. Ltd.

    Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Company. | Date: 1930-1939
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    New size : Crompton's Black Currant Emulsion : "it touches the tickle".

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1920?]
    • Pictures

    A man attacking little monsters with the word "Nosa"; advertising Nosa remedy against body parasites. Colour lithograph by E. Freixa for Laboratorios SOKATARG, 19--.

    Freixa, E. (Designer) | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 995730i
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Related topics

Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Dyspepsia
Analgesics
Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
Dietary Supplements
Dietary Supplements
Antitussive Agents
Beverages
Toothpastes

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