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Background imageRemedy Collection: Enos Fruit Salts

Enos Fruit Salts
Full page colour advertisement fo Enos fruit salts, a popular remedy for digestive problems throughout the 19th century

Background imageRemedy Collection: Andrews Liver Salt poster by John Hassall

Andrews Liver Salt poster by John Hassall
I must have left it behind. A bemused gent scratches his head as he searches his suitcase for his precious tin of Andrews Liver Salt. It is, of course, in his back trouser pocket. Date: c.1920

Background imageRemedy Collection: Ellimans embrocation

Ellimans embrocation
Colour advertisement from 1914 for Ellimans Embrocation showing a hunting scene. Ellimans was a well-known remedy for easing joint pain with formulae for both horses and humans

Background imageRemedy Collection: Oyster Catch / Whitstable

Oyster Catch / Whitstable
Oysters, found to be a valuable remedy for the influenza epidemic, are sorted and packed by fishermen in Whitstable, Kent, for distribution to the hospitals

Background imageRemedy Collection: Mothersills Seasick Remedy

Mothersills Seasick Remedy
Advertisement for Mothersills Seasick Remedy - recommended to stop train sickness. 1930

Background imageRemedy Collection: Cephos cold and flu powder advertisement

Cephos cold and flu powder advertisement
Advert for Cephos cold and flu powder depicting a poorly looking woman, dressed rather smartly, and standing, hanging onto a strap on a bus or tube train

Background imageRemedy Collection: Electric Oil Remedy / 1890

Electric Oil Remedy / 1890
Advertisement for Dr Thomass Electric Oil: the great internal and external remedy

Background imageRemedy Collection: Woolleys Chemists labels

Woolleys Chemists labels
Woolleys Ltd Chemists, bottle labels, Brimstone and Treacle Tablets, Winter Lung and Chest Wafer and Special Menthol Tablets 1908 Date: 1908

Background imageRemedy Collection: Sanotogen advert

Sanotogen advert
A woman appearing ??Run-down?. The advert offering Sanatogen to build your health back up. It was invented by the Bauer Chemical Co. in Germany in 1898. It is still sold today as vitamins. Date: 1925

Background imageRemedy Collection: Abol Advertisement

Abol Advertisement
Advertisement for Abol, promoting their non-poisonous insecticide. The safest and best remedy for greenfly, mildew, etc. Image shows the labelled canister along with syringe. Date: circa 1931

Background imageRemedy Collection: Comic postcard, Scotsman providing sea breezes

Comic postcard, Scotsman providing sea breezes
Comic postcard, Scotsman providing his wife with sea breezes on the cheap Date: 20th century

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advert, Toupes and wigs for men

Advert, Toupes and wigs for men from C Bond & Son, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, London W1. 1923

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advert for Coca-tonic, Champagne - nerve tonic 1897

Advert for Coca-tonic, Champagne - nerve tonic 1897
Sold in wine merchants stores and chemist. The highest class natural champagne and coco leaf extract, the most powerful nerve tonic. 1897

Background imageRemedy Collection: Plantes Medicinales - Medicinal plants

Plantes Medicinales - Medicinal plants
A variety of medicinal plants renowned for their healing properties including mistletoe, sphagnum moss and violets. Date: 1930

Background imageRemedy Collection: Ebers papyrus. ca. 1500 BC. Ancient Egypt. Amenhotep

Ebers papyrus. ca. 1500 BC. Ancient Egypt. Amenhotep Is reign. 18th Dynasty. One of the first treatises on medicine written in human history. Hieratic, hieroglyphic writing. GERMANY. SAXONY. Leipzig

Background imageRemedy Collection: Allcocks Porous Plaster

Allcocks Porous Plasters, a safe and sure remedy. Warming and soothing, relieving and curing Asthma, Lumbago, Sciatica, Colds, Kinks, Quinsy, Spasms, Rheumatism

Background imageRemedy Collection: Brimstone and Treacle

Brimstone and Treacle -- probably a reference to a Victorian aperient medicine. 19th century

Background imageRemedy Collection: Pharmaceutical jars. Spanish Albarello. 17th century. Pharma

Pharmaceutical jars. Spanish Albarello. 17th century. Pharma
Pharmaceutical jars for storing Aspirina and Bicarbonat. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Cartoon, During the bombardment, WW1

Cartoon, During the bombardment, WW1
Cartoon, During the bombardment. A British soldier eats from a hamper during a bombing raid

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advert for Phosferine tonic medicine 1915

Advert for Phosferine tonic medicine 1915
The devastating effects of the constant bombing of shell fire, over the men in the trenches in World War One, even when no actual injury is not seen

Background imageRemedy Collection: Theatrum sanitatis (Codex 4182). Tacuinum Sanitatis

Theatrum sanitatis (Codex 4182). Tacuinum Sanitatis. sheet CXXIII: Galli. Hens in a wicker cage; remedy for those who suffer with colic. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Rome

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advertisement for Chlorodyne

Advertisement for Chlorodyne
An advertisement for Dr J Collis Brownes Chlorodyne, the best and surest remedy for all kinds of conditions, including coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, spasms

Background imageRemedy Collection: Ethiopia, Africa - Bloodletting

Ethiopia, Africa - Bloodletting
Remedies: Bloodletting (after a razor has drawn blood) using a cow horn. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemedy Collection: bn Zuhr (ca. 1092-ca. 1162). Andalusi physician

bn Zuhr (ca. 1092-ca. 1162). Andalusi physician
Ibn Zuhr (ca. 1092-ca. 1162). Andalusi physician, philosopher and poet born in Penaflor (Seville, Andalusia, Spain). Known in medieval Europe by the name of Avenzoar. Portrait

Background imageRemedy Collection: Lactart (Milk Acid) - relieves fevers, headache etc

Lactart (Milk Acid) - relieves fevers, headache etc
Lactart (Milk Acid) - relieves fevers, headache, wakefulness, nervous depression and urinary troubles. Produced by Avery Lactate Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advertising / Promotional card for Dr Jaynes Remedies

Advertising / Promotional card for Dr Jaynes Remedies featuring a milkmaid and a pair of Jersey Cows. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advert for Harness Electric Battery Belt 1884

Advert for Harness Electric Battery Belt 1884
Harness Electric Battery Belt, claiming the most effectual remedy for rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, deafness, headache, paralyss, nervous debility and other nervous muscular and functional maladies

Background imageRemedy Collection: Apothecary s. Ancient herbalism. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Fi

Apothecary s. Ancient herbalism. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Old Pharmacy laboratoy. Inside. Instrumentals. 1772-1809. Ph

Old Pharmacy laboratoy. Inside. Instrumentals. 1772-1809. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Pharmaceutical porcelain jars. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finla

Pharmaceutical porcelain jars. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Pharmaceutical jars for storing Aspirina and Bicarbonat

Pharmaceutical jars for storing Aspirina and Bicarbonat. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Pharmaceutical glass containers. 1700. Pharmacy Museum. Turk

Pharmaceutical glass containers. 1700. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Pharmaceutical containers with inscriptions, and mortar. pha

Pharmaceutical containers with inscriptions, and mortar. pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advert for Dr. Scotts electric plasters 1889

Advert for Dr. Scotts electric plasters 1889
They who suffer ache and pain, need suffer never more again. With the new invention Dr. Scotts electric plaster. Claiming to cure many illnesses

Background imageRemedy Collection: Trade card, Horsfords Acid Phosphate

Trade card, Horsfords Acid Phosphate
Trade card for Horsfords Acid Phosphate, for mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, etc, manufactured by Rumford Chemical Works of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Date: circa late 19th century

Background imageRemedy Collection: WW1 advertisement for Salaspin replacing German aspirin

WW1 advertisement for Salaspin replacing German aspirin
Advertisement for Salaspin, a British made headache remedy, with one or two tablets able to alleviate headache brought on by war worry. The advert states very plainly that it replaces German aspirin

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advertisement for a Quack Remedy - Japanese Junk - Sydney

Advertisement for a Quack Remedy - Japanese Junk - Sydney
Advertisement for a Quack Remedy on the sails of a Japanese Junk - Sydney Harbour, Australia. Dr. Sheldons New Discovery for Coughs, Colds and Consumption. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemedy Collection: Pharmacopoea drawer

Pharmacopoea drawer
A pharmacopea drawer dating back to before 1753 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection. A drawer containing the different ingredients for the preparation or mixing of medicines

Background imageRemedy Collection: Jail the only remedy

Jail the only remedy

Background imageRemedy Collection: FEG. kidney remedy. The newly discovered herb medicine. Sold

FEG. kidney remedy. The newly discovered herb medicine. Sold everywhere. Patent medicine poster showing Paul and Virginia, caricatures of an African American couple on a swing. Date c1887. FEG

Background imageRemedy Collection: Dr. D. Jaynes tonic vermifuge. A sure remedy for worms

Dr. D. Jaynes tonic vermifuge. A sure remedy for worms. Advertisement for patent remedies, showing Moses held in a basket by a young woman. Date c1889

Background imageRemedy Collection: Silhouette of a couple taking the waters

Silhouette of a couple taking the waters
7-9am Taking the Waters -- a couple stand facing each other, probably in a spa resort. They both have walking sticks, and the man on the left is holding a glass in his hand

Background imageRemedy Collection: Feeding medicine to a poorly kitten

Feeding medicine to a poorly kitten
The Patient. A sick kitten is spoon-fed some medicine - the patient does not seem too keen.....!! Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemedy Collection: Shakespeare / Puck

Shakespeare / Puck
Act IV, Scene I Puck applies the remedy, so that the lovers & Bottom awaken, as though from a dream Date: 1908

Background imageRemedy Collection: Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant or cures / remedies

Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant or cures / remedies
Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant in a truly spectacular hat selling traditional local tunisian cures/remedies by the side of the street

Background imageRemedy Collection: A Sovereign Remedy

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Background imageRemedy Collection: Ayers Cathartic Pills

Ayers Cathartic Pills
Ayers Pills are a sure remedy for Costiveness, Jaundice, Indigestion, Headache, Dizziness, transient Numbness, Biliousness. As a Dinner Pill they have no equal

Background imageRemedy Collection: Advert / Eclectric Oil

Advert / Eclectric Oil
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil - the great internal and external remedy

Background imageRemedy Collection: A Cure for Gout

A Cure for Gout
The waistcoat pocket remedy for gout

Background imageRemedy Collection: Cod Liver Oil / Children

Cod Liver Oil / Children
Advertisement for Mellins cod liver oil emulsion, for colds, coughs, chest ailments and wasting sickness

Background imageRemedy Collection: Old Physick Garden, Chelsea, London

Old Physick Garden, Chelsea, London
View of the Old Physick Garden in Chelsea, London


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