Drug advertising ephemera. Box 69.
- Ephemera
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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets from Menley & James (medical botany series: castor oil, strychnine, nux vomica tree, Aconitine, monkshood, Eskay brand Neuro Phosphates, Plagues and pestilences series: plague, cholera, Broad Street Pump, trypanosomiasis, malaria, Drinamyl, Paredrinex, Benzedrine inhaler, Pendex, Eskamel, Furacin, Pendex, Pragmatar, Edrisal, Pyridium, Iodex, Procol (1965), Dexedrine, Sulfex, Mandelamine), The Mentholatum Co. Ltd.'s Mentholatum (catarrh and colds) and Deep Heat analgesic spray (1981), Merchant's Gargling Oil (introduced in 1833 - liniment for burns, rheumatism, wounds, bruises, haemorrhoids, toothache, sore throat, chilblains, chapped hands), E. Merck (Encephabol, Dionin morphine substitute, Durexan for incontinence, photograph of the cardiac department of Northwick Park Hospital (1980), Gamanil for depression), Clinoril (osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis : Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited : 1977).
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