'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion - when burdened with fears of a migraine attack...

Date:
[between 1962 and 1964?]
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'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion - when burdened with fears of a migraine attack... In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

One of a series of leaflets ("masters") issued by Burroughs Wellcome & Co. advertising Migril, a headaches and migraines remedy containing caffeine and the ergot derivative ergotamine. Showing an illustration by William John Eccles of a ringmaster at the circus conducting a ballerina, horse, and two dogs.

Publication/Creation

London : Burroughs Wellcome & Co., [between 1962 and 1964?]

Physical description

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm

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    EPH/296/27

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