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Pills

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  • 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".
  • A selection of alternative medicines
  • Baldwin's Bilious and Liver Pills : cures sickness, dizziness, shoulder pains, yellowness of the eyes, skin, brown or yellow coated tongue, bile, jaundice, constipation, piles, all liver troubles.
  • A selection of alternative medicines
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
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    Vomiting and sickness, artwork

    Mary Rouncefield
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    Contribution à l'histoire de la spécialité pharmaceutique : à propos de quelques pilules.

    Lefebvre-Heroguez, Jacques. | Date: 1952
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    A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

    | Date: 1994 | Reference: 677306i
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    Baldwin's Sarsaparilla and Peruvian Bark: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 668926i
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    Specification of Reuben Jacob Jordan : pills.

    Jordan, Reuben Jacob. | Date: 1860
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