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Antiseptic Collection

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Odol Mouth Competition

Odol Mouth Competition
Advertisement for Odol mouthwash or liquid antiseptic dentifrice which features a competition to guess Whose Mouth Is It...? The first prize is 20

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Kolynos Trade Card

Kolynos Trade Card
Trade card for KOLYNOS dental cream, in the shape of a tube of toothpaste. It is described as cleansing - antiseptic - delicious

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Lister / Begg / Iln

Lister / Begg / Iln
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Operation / Lister Spray

Operation / Lister Spray
Operation with Listers antiseptic spray in use

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Joseph Lister, taken in the late 1860s

Joseph Lister, taken in the late 1860s. Date: late 1860s

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Advert for Wright's Coal Tar soap

Advert for Wright's Coal Tar soap
Advert for Wrights coal tar soap. Created by William Valentine Wright in 1860,  Wright's Coal Tar Soap was a popular brand of antiseptic soap designed to thoroughly cleanse the skin

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Bristol Myers Co Ipana Advertisement

Bristol Myers Co Ipana Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Bristol Myers Co, promoting their Ipana toothpaste, a cleansing, antiseptic, flavoursome product which refreshes the mouth delightfully. Date: circa 1923

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Spiked pepper or matico, Piper aduncum

Spiked pepper or matico, Piper aduncum (Piper angustifolium). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: School Nurse

School Nurse - People You See. From Teddy Bear (15 January 1966). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1966

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Novio toilet paper advertisement, 1915

Novio toilet paper advertisement, 1915
Advertisement for Novio, the finest toilet paper ever produced - antiseptic, thin, soft, strong and silky. Date: 1915

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Advert for Mrs. Adair, Genesh Patent chin strap 1905

Advert for Mrs. Adair, Genesh Patent chin strap 1905
Genesh Patent chin strap, cures double chin, and takes away the line from nose to month. Strong straps to cure snoring and Domino straps to cure puffiness under eyes and takes away lines

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Advert for Salt Regal 1889

Advert for Salt Regal 1889
Salt Regal for the hot weather. High-class antiseptic salt possessing hygienic properties. Dispensed in bottle is a white powder that mixed with water turns pink, cleanse the month

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Bi-Borax Oriental

Bi-Borax Oriental
This lady uses Bi-Borax Oriental, an antiseptic detergent which cleans and purifies her skin : no wonder shes satisfied with what she sees in her mirror Date: 1891

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
A group of cutters and machinists at Princetown on Dartmoor making cases for sphagnum moss which would become surgical dressings during the First World War

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Advert for Sanitas - family antiseptic for wounds 1937

Advert for Sanitas - family antiseptic for wounds 1937
Just a small wound but.... I never run the risk of blood poisoning. As soon as any member of my family gets a scratch or cut, let alone a more serious wound, I instantly apply Sanitas

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Advertisement for Sanitas disinfectant, WW1

Advertisement for Sanitas disinfectant, WW1
Wartime advertisement for Sanitas disinfectant, by appointment to King George V -- don t use German disinfectants. Sanitas Fluid for washing wounds, purifying the air of sick rooms, etc

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Urtica dioica, stinging nettle

Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
A herb which has various medicinal benefits and produces tiny hairs that sting when in contact with skin due to the presence of histamine and formic acid

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Antiseptic is used to stop infections

Antiseptic is used to stop infections. From Look and Learn no. 456 (10 Oct 1970)

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Borax

Borax
A romantically styled ad for Borax antiseptic from 1885. Borax was used for a wide variety of household jobs being effective as an anti-bacterial, cleaning, fungicidal and bleaching agent

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Portrait of Sir Joseph Lister

Portrait of Sir Joseph Lister
Born in Essex in 1827, he received his degree from University College, London. In 1860 he became a Surgeon at Glasows Royal Infirmary, where he researched the cause of infections

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Sir Joseph Lister

Sir Joseph Lister
JOSEPH, first baron LISTER of Lyme Regis, surgeon and medical scientist, regarded as the founder of antiseptic surgery

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Soldiers tabloid first aid pack

Soldiers tabloid first aid pack
Medical equipment in a handy portable case made for soldiers, war correspondents, airmen and explorers. The kit contains Kola compound that supresses hunger and thirst

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Lister / Moffat Photo

Lister / Moffat Photo
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Lister / Col Lith

Lister / Col Lith
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

Background imageAntiseptic Collection: Lister / Empire Leaders

Lister / Empire Leaders
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery


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