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An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.

'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Dear colleague, we recently announced details of the HIV/AIDS summer campaign in the June issue of HEADLINES ... / Dr. Spencer Hagard, Chief executive, Health Education Authority.

The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

A painting book for boys and girls / presented by Carter's Little Liver Pills.

Perihel ultraviolet, infrared : brings health & the sun to your home / Perihel Limited.

Crescent cook book / [Crescent Manufacturing Company].

Snowdrift secrets / [Southern Cotton Oil Co. of Great Britain Ltd].

J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.

Healthy eating for mothers and mothers to be / Boots.

Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

The new Alpine Sun and Kromayer quartz lamps : pioneers in 1905, the standard of the world today July 1924 / Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.

Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.

Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.

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Healthy eating for mothers and mothers to be / Boots.

Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

The new Alpine Sun and Kromayer quartz lamps : pioneers in 1905, the standard of the world today July 1924 / Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.

Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.

Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.