Drug advertising ephemera : Pre-1850. Box 3.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves advertising medicinal products. They are arranged alphabetically by manufacturer as far as can be determined. Often all that is mentioned is where the product is to be bought (at lots of coffee shops, toy shops, pubs and book shops. Mostly in London). They are from the 18th and early 19th centuries and are mostly a mixture of newspaper advertisements, leaflets and handbills including: Laming's Effervescing Cheltenham Salts (saline aperient like Seidlitz Powders), Eau contre les maux d'yeux... (eye diseases, wounds, burns, stings, haemorrhoids, Mme. Lebon), Jean Lefay's Grande Pommade (gout, rheumatism, tic douloreux. Better than galvinism or electricity, J.W. Stirling, Whitechapel), Tincture for Family Use (antiscorbutic, blood preserver, depression, gout, fever, scurvy, Theophilus Lobb, 1763), Locock's Female Pills (menstruation disorders, 1849), Calaloo, Spaniapozeme (rheumatism, Marcano Hermanas, Trinidad), Dr. Warren's Pills (indigestion, biliousness, Midgeley, Strand, 1813), John Moore's Worm Powders (1729), Morison's Pills (asthma, 1843, 1848), Dr. James's Powder (fever, rheumatism, colds, 1774), Dr. Lockyer's Pills (1772), Compound Tonic Pills (quinine, malaria, fever), Family Aperient Pills (dyspepsia), Aetherial Anodyne Opodeldoc (pain relief, sciatica, chilblains), Le Mort's Ointment for the Itch (Noakes and Co.), Dr. Norris's Antimonial Drops (1774), Parr's Life Pills (biliousness, dyspepsia, costiveness, urinary affections, E. Edwards, 1847), a cure for leanness (1711), a cure for the vapours in women (1711), Mr. Rogers' Powder for stone, gravel, and strangury (Mr. Pemberton, 1718), chocolate making, Boyle Godfrey's specific (diarrhoea, bloody fluxes, L. Pitts), Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills and Frampton's Pill of Health (gout, rheumatism, indigestion, J. Roche, 1813), Jesuits Drops (gleets, sexually transmitted diseases, ulcers in ano, scurvy, rheRymer's Specific for the Asthma (1822), James Rymer's Cardiac and Nervous Tincture (biliousness, indigestion, flatulence, 1797), Acqua di Melisse and Antipesti Lenziale (Carmelite Fathers of Santa Maria della Scala, Rome), Shepherd's Bicarbonate Lozenges (indigestion, ca. 1830), Stomach Pills (Mr. Speediman), Cordial Balm of Gilead (consumption, diarrhoea, intemperance, nervous weakness, Dr. Solomon, near Liverpool), Mr. Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops (1790), Spijker Balsem (Alida Jacoba Spyker), Dr. Steer's Opodeldoc (rheumatism, bruises, sprains, H. Steers, 1785-1797), Lémithochorton, Spécifique contre les Vers (worms, Dimo Stefanopoli), Joanna Stephens' cure for stone (including egg shells and garden snails, 1739), Voltaire's Ointment (haemorrhoids, fistula, J.W. Stirling, 1832), Vegetable Syrup of de Velnos (Mr. Swanson), Montpelier Pectoral Drops (cough, colds, asthma, consumptions, M. Swinney, 1774), Medicamentum Gratia Probatum (gravel, stone, worms, Tilly, ca. 1820), brandy and salt as a remedy for gout, consumption, inflammation (1840), Vandour's Nervous Pills (George Freehairn, 1774), Hunter's Restorative Balsam (Wade's Medicinal Warehouse, Fleet Street, 1789), Dr. Robert Walker's Jesuit Drops (gleets, sexually transmitted diseases, 1762), Walsh's Coltsfoot Lozenges (cough, 1813), Nephretick or Cordial Tincture (flatulence, 1726), Worboys's Vegetable Pills (piles, flatulence, indigestion, bile, W.S. Worboys, Lambeth, 1845), Baron Schwanenberg's Liquid Shell (stone, gravel, flatulence), Turlington's Original Balsam of Life (stone, gravel, cholic, rheumatism, gout, asthma, ague, Martha Wray, Hilton Wray,1780), Wright's Caryophillus Regius, or, Royal Clove Drops ( stomach and bowel disorders), Wright's Diuretick (venereal diseases, 1728), Squire's Original Grand Elixir (consumption, John Yates, 1723), L'Élixir de Longue Vie (Dr. Yerner), Grand Cathartick (constipation, gravel, smallpox, stone, fever, scurvy, dropsy, ague, jaundice, greensickness, 1724), Specifick Drops for Deafness (1728), Tinctura Mirafica (stone, gravel, 1728), the fam'd Worm Plaister (intestinal parasites, London, 1723), a cure for rheumatism (1739), a cure for inflammation of the eyes and early stages of cataracts (Haydon Yard, Minories, London, 1728).