Oversize ephemera. EPH+14.

Includes advertisements for individual medicines and lists of materia medica available at suppliers and pharmacies from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. A lot of these were supposed to cure most ailments. Holloway's Pills (1872), Whitehead's Essence of Mustard (for rheumatism, 1797), R. Rendall's cure for corns (Regent Street, London, 1848), perfumes, oils, cosmetics (François Rambert, Firenze), John Dales & Co. (York 1812), Mrs. Walker (stationery and physic, Week Street, Maidstone, 1784), purging medicines (Dr. Cockburn), John Baptista Albrizzi's Theriaca Andromachi Senioris (Venice), Nicolas de Koning Tilly's Medicamentum Gratia Probatum (after 1764, Harlem, Holland), aether (M. Turner, surgeon, Liverpool, after 1742), Faynard's Powder for bleeding (James Faynard, Whitehall), Hypo-Drops, Quintessence of Vipers (for impotence in men, barrenness in women), Anti-Syphilicon (syphilis. 18th century), anodyne necklace, Eau Medicinale d'Husson (gout, ca. 1820), Balsamo Artificiale Romano (Luca Antonio Chracas, Rome), Balsamic Tincture for ulcers of the legs (Fullers Medicinal Warehouse, Covent Garden), Sore nipple medicine and cures for asthma, gout, scurvy, cholic, toothache, corns, rheumatism, nervous restoratives (Gardner, Long Acre, 1796), Vegetable Balsam for consumption, asthma, scrofula (N. and S. Godbold, Bloomsbury Square, 1810), Arabian Balsam for stomach and respiration disorders, stone, scurvy, palsy, ulcers, asthma, consumption (John Gray, Tooley Street, London, ca. 1780), Solfato di Chinina (Rome 1824), Cordial Elixir for the Stomach (Richard Stoughton, London), Acqua Vulneraria (Rome, 1772), Eau de Vertu (an antispeptic : Antoine Chapius), Giacomo Menegatti (Venice), Dottore Badanotti's Vino Santo tonic (Firenze), Dr. Gaetano Trove's elixir (1819), Dr. Hamilton's Cariophillus Regius (cough, rheumatism, pain relief), Jeremie's sedative solution of opium and anti-spasmodic for cholera and influenza (Francis Lean, Plymouth, 1839?), José Joaquim de Castro, George Jones' Friendly Pills for stone, gravel, scurvy, dropsy, venereal diseases, consumption, constipation (Hatton Garden,1675. With portrait), Dr. Solomon's Cordial Balm of Gilead (tonic, 1797), Dr. Patrick Anderson's Grana Angelica for stomach diseases, headache, dropsy, palsy, gout, catarrh, worms, green sickness and scurvy prepared by James English (Edinburgh 1761. With portrait), Lockyer's Pills (Lionel Lockyear, London, 17th cent. With portrait), Purging sugar plums for cough, ague, itch (the Anodyne Necklace in Long Acre, London, ca. 1755), Thomas Weir (surgeon, Edinburgh 1694).