Pills and profits : the selling of medicines since 1870 : an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Ken Arnold, Tilli Tansey.
- Arnold, Ken, 1960-
- Date:
- 1994
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: Pills and profits : the selling of medicines since 1870 : an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Ken Arnold, Tilli Tansey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![product advertised was A progressive dietary adapted to the growing digestive pow- ers. Such dietary supplements were one of the commodities that came to be monop- olized by large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturers. Modern Medicine Collections III. 11 Advertisement for 'Coeurets Digestifs de Spa'. Colour lithograph; Paris, [c. 1935?] This advertising board was supplied with a string from which to suspend it, and was probably used in a chemist's shop. The medicine is presented in the form of heart- shaped pills in a heart-shaped bottle and is advertised as effective against indigestion, anaemia, migraine and insomnia (though, curiously, not heart diseases). Iconographic Collections III. 12 'Unqualified Assistance'. Wood engraving after a drawing by Bernard Partridge; from Punch, 15 May 1912 This cartoon concerns the conflicting political attitudes surrounding the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Behind a pensive-looking Lloyd George dances a gleeful medicine bottle labelled Magic Cure-all. A poster carried by protesting doc- tors can be seen through the window: it reads Doctors demand a living wage. Iconographic Collections III. 13 H. Silverlock book of pharmaceutical labels; English, late nineteenth century This book of labels was made up by the printers H Silverlock in order to show sam- ples to pharmacists. The labels chosen by a pharmacist were applied to the bottles of drugs they made, sometimes to their own recipes. The labels in the book include products relating to photography and veterinary as well as ordinary medicine. Kindly loaded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain III. 14 Advertising clappers and accompanying letter for Steedman's Teething Powders; English, 1901 This specimen 'Advertising Clapper' was produced by the publisher Albert Hildesheimer. Steedman's & Co. were particularly energetic in advertising their prod- ucts. In the 1950s a causative link was established between Pink Disease and the use of mercurial preparations such as Steedman's Powders. Kindly loaned by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456517_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
