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Advertisement : Here is lately arrived a doctor of physick, who by his long study and experience, both at home and in foreign countries, has acquir'd as learned and safe a method in curing all diseases incident to humane bodies ... as the nature of the distemper will permit.

The quack's song / written by F.C. Burnand ; music by W. Meyer Lutz ; sung ... by Edward Terry in F.C. Burnand's extravaganza "Camaralzaman.".

Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.

The Queen's gift / Dr. Williams Medicine Co.

Sailors keeping well by taking "Neverill" remedy. Colour lithograph by R.A., ca. 1900.

A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

Advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment

Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.

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Advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment

Ladies' note book and calendar / World's Dispensary Medical Association.

R Woollatt and J Boyd, chemists, Taunton, Somerset

Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia & c. : it makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only / Rumford Chemical Works.