A woman with a dog in a landscape; advertising Sabelin slimming medicine. Colour lithograph.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1999]
Reference:
995728i
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Description

Sabelin was a weight-reducing medicine made of various medicinal plants containing diuretics and intestinal remedies ( (Hervás Pujal, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

[Barcelona?] : Laboratorios SOKATARG, S.A., [between 1900 and 1999]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 29.5 x 22 cm

Lettering

Para adelgazar Sabelin. El tratamiento mas eficaz e inofensivo para combatir obesidad. Laboratorios SOKATARG, S.A.

Creator/production credits

The pharmaceutical firm Laboratorios SOKATARG was founded in Barcelona ca. 1915 by Joan Gratacós Vallmajo (1883-1934). The name of the firm was his patronymic Gratacós in reverse (Hervás Pujal, op. cit.)

References note

C. Hervás Pujal, 'Notas históricas de un laboratorio farmacéutico de Barcelona: el laboratorio SOKATARG', Butlletí de la Societat d'Amics de la Història de la Ciència Farmacèutica Catalana : BSAHCFC.1996: any. 5, núm. 11, pp. 53-56 (this product mentioned p. 56)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 995728i

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