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Medicine / Liver Pills
LIVER TABLETS - Advert for Carters Little Liver Pills

Promotional jigsaw, Beechams Pills and Powders. circa 1930s

Advertisement, Carters Little Liver Pills, WW1
Advertisement, Carters Little Liver Pills for Active Service, showing a man undergoing an army medical examination during the early stages of the First World War. Date: 1914

Advert / Hood Liver Pills
Hoods Liver Pills

Advert for Beechams Pills 1887
What are the Wild Waves saying ? Try BREECHAMs PILLS! 1887

Advert / Wind Pills / Page
Page Woodcocks Wind Pills: invaluable for the cure of indigestion, liver complaints and biliousness

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up! Date: 1899

Blackpool Shrimper and bathing machine in 1890

Victorian Magic Lantern Slide Beecham's Pills Goodnight

Advert, Carter's Little Liver Pills for Constipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache Date: circa 1900

Wartime Beecham's Pills Advertisement
A wartime advertisement promoting Beecham's Pills, taken to avoid stomach upsets, headaches and constipation. The image portrays a woman who feels quite ill! Date: circa 1940s

Advert, Trust Beecham's Pills to keep you fit Date: 1920

Advert, Page Woodcock's Wind Pills Date: 1891

Advertisement, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. Afraid to face traffic. Nerves in a terrible state and anaemia made her as pale as death

Comic postcard, Young woman on board ship. The Diary of a Cruise! Date: 20th century

Advert for Beechams Pills, 1925 Date: 1925

To Ladies. Advert for Dr John Hoopers Female Pills. Date: 1886

Advert, T & H Smith Limited, Edinburgh and Glasgow
Advert for T & H Smith Limited, Morphine and Codeine manufacturers, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Jollys Duchess Pills
Advert for Jollys Duchess Pills for Pale Faces, from British Druggists Ltd, Oxford Street, London. 1897

Front cover, Beechams Family Almanack, published by the proprietor of Beechams Pills. Date: 1905

Chemist shop, Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Chemist shop interior (Manager, Julian Pascual), Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. circa 1910

Church Row, Stanmore, Middlesex, with people and traffic. Date: circa 1910s

Bushbys patent pill making machine 1869
Pill mass, is first placed between two plain rollers to form a sheet of thickness required for the size of pill to be made, the thickness of the sheet necessarily determining the size of the pills

London Horse Bus Date: circa 1905

Advertising Promotional card for Ayers Pills, which can seemingly affect a cure for any known ailment... The image depicts a (French?) military hero sweeping to victory on a battlefield

Advertising Promotional postcard for Beechams Pills
Advertising Promotional postcard for Beechams (laxative) Pills - tested by three generations. Date: circa 1903

Advert for Trilene Tablets, weight loss 1898
All Fat People, Victorian advert for a cure for overweight people, reducing your weight in a few weeks by simply taking Trilene Tablets. Date: 1898

Information leaflet, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people
Information leaflet for Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. The patent medicine pills contained iron oxide and magnesium sulphate

Advertisement, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. Mother weak from childhood. Son a victim of St Vitus Dance. The patent medicine pills contained iron oxide and magnesium sulphate

Box of pills with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy with doctor and pudding on a comic New Year card
Boy with doctor and humanised pudding on a comic New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Page of Victorian adverts 1889
A variety of advertisements in The Graphic dated August 1889, showing Nuda Veritas hair restorer, Nubian, black polish for boots and shoes, Nortons Camomile Pills, for indigestion

Information leaflet, Dr Williams Pinkettes, laxative pills
Information leaflet for Dr Williams Pinkettes, tiny laxative pills, sugar coated, entirely vegetable. For constipation, sluggish liver and biliousness. Date: early 20th century

Advert for Beechams Pills 1900
The before and after approach is a mainstay of medical advertising : here it is, used dramatically, if not credibly, by the manufacturers of Beechams Pills. 1900

Bathing Machines on the beach at Tenby, Wales Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Beechams Pills 1886
Used in the Palace by Queen Victoria, in the cottage, at sea and when studying. Sold only at wholesale and retail, by the Proprietor, T. Beecham, chemist St. Heens, lancashire. 1886

The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Squills
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Squills the Chemists Wife. circa 1910

The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Squills
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Squills the Chemists Daughter. circa 1910

The Round Game of Happy Families, Master Squills
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Master Squills the Chemists Son. circa 1910

Advert for Allcocks Porous Plasters for aches and pains WWI
Allcocks Porous Plasters for pain relief, rheumatism in shoulders, stiffness or soreness of muscles, prevent coughs, colds, weak lungs and strengthen weak backs and sides and restore energy. 1915

Christmas card in the shape of medicines -- Seidlitz Powders and Liver Pills (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of medicines
Greetings card in the shape of a bottle of medicine (labelled black draught) and a box of little blue pills. circa 1890s

French Happy Families - Pharmacist
French Happy Families - La Famille Potard, Grandmother, Pharmacist. early 20th century

History of medicine. Machinery. cartoning pills. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Caricature of Frederick Burnaby, traveller and army officer
Caricature of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (1842-1885), traveller and British army officer. He stood as a Tory candidate for Birmingham in the 1880 General Election, but was unsuccessful. 1880

Beechams Pills Cycle Ad
Theres nothing to beat a play upon words for a catchy slogan - this striking advert is designed to appeal to the cycling public when this sport is enjoying a popular vogue. Date: 1900

Advert / Holloways Pills
Holloways Pills and Ointment for health, youth and beauty Date: circa 1890

Fly to Beechams Pills for Perfect Health - Promo Prochure Date: 1930

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