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A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

Souvenir of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G. visit to the works of Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., Nottingham, Wednesday, 1st August, 1923.

Health and hygiene department / [Vaughan & Heather, Ltd.].

Merchants of medicines : the commerce and coercion of health in Britain's long eighteenth century / Zachary Dorner.

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Souvenir of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G. visit to the works of Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., Nottingham, Wednesday, 1st August, 1923.

A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

Health and hygiene department / [Vaughan & Heather, Ltd.].

Merchants of medicines : the commerce and coercion of health in Britain's long eighteenth century / Zachary Dorner.