If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning ... : 'Actifed' brand compound linctus.

Date:
1968
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If anyone suffering from sore throat ties his (or her) left stocking round his throat on going to bed, he will be better in the morning ... : 'Actifed' brand compound linctus. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

One of a series of leaflets (Encyclopaedia of Superstitions by E. & M.A. Radford) advertising Actifed Compound Linctus, active against symptoms of the common cold, containing codeine. Showing a man being tended in bed by a woman, visited by a medical practitioner.

Publication/Creation

London : Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1968.

Physical description

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 17 x 22 cm folded to 14 x 22 cm

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    EPH/296/5

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