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Specification of Robert Ford and William Ford : consumption of smoke.

By royal letters patent, granted to Thomas Ford, for the improvement in the pectoral balsam of horehound, and great restorative medicine, far superior to any yet discovered for curing the most violent coughs, colds, asthmas, hooping-coughs, and consumptions prepared only by Thomas Ford, patentee, chemist, Holloway, London.

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Specification of Robert Ford and William Ford : consumption of smoke.

Specification of Robert Ford : balsam of horehound for coughs, &c.