Victorians loved lotions and potions and this collection shows a variety of posters and printed labels for balms, ointments and elixirs. These images also include 20th century campaigns to fight disease, and immunisation and anti-smoking posters. Photographs of the interiors and exteriors of hospitals are also represented here.
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Recipe for a medicine against the pestilence, c.15th-16th century
Florence Nightingale's birth certificate, 1820
Smallpox poster, Liverpool, 1851
Bickford's Cough Elixir, 1883
Visiting day on the accident ward at Guy's Hospital, London, 1897
Operating theatre at the Great Northern Central Hospital, 1910
'Coughs And Sneezes Spread Diseases' campaign poster, 1940s
National Health Services guidebook cover, 1950s
'Is your NHS number on your Medical Card?' poster, 1953
Post-war diphtheria immunisation poster
Post-war National Blood Tranfusion Service
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Ministry of Health anti-smoking poster, 1963
Recipe for a medicine against the pestilence, c.15th-16th century
Florence Nightingale's birth certificate, 1820
Smallpox poster, Liverpool, 1851
Bickford's Cough Elixir, 1883
Visiting day on the accident ward at Guy's Hospital, London, 1897
Operating theatre at the Great Northern Central Hospital, 1910
'Coughs And Sneezes Spread Diseases' campaign poster, 1940s
National Health Services guidebook cover, 1950s
'Is your NHS number on your Medical Card?' poster, 1953
Post-war diphtheria immunisation poster
Post-war National Blood Tranfusion Service 
Ministry of Health anti-smoking poster, 1963