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<p>One of a series of leaflets (superstitious and traditional remedies) advertising Actifed Compound Linctus, active against symptoms of the common cold, containing codeine. Showing a woman tending to a young boy who is ill in bed, adapted from a fable contained within George Ewart Evans' 'The Pattern Under the Plough'.</p>

Actifed Compound Linctus provides rapid and effective relief : suppresses unproductive cough ...

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