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Including Victorian medical posters and printed ephemera, epidemics and campaigns.

Medical

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Image reference: E 163/22/2/60

Recipe for a medicine against the pestilence, c.15th-16th century

 

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Image reference: RG 5/83

Florence Nightingale's birth certificate, 1820

 

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Image reference: BT 45/5 (988)

Design for Salt's Portable Ether Inhaler, 1846

 

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Image reference: BT45/10 (1897)

Design for a disguised hearing aid called the Mimosa or Flower Cornet, by William Blackmore of London, 1849

 

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Image reference: BT 42/6 (1047)

Smallpox poster, Liverpool, 1851

 

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Image reference: CO 384/92

Cholera warning poster, November 1853

 

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Image reference: MPI 1/504 (3)

Chinese anatomical diagram from Admiralty Medical Journals, China Station, late 1850s

 

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Image reference: COPY 1/53 folio 67

Sun's Staff Of Life Health Restorer, 1881

 

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Image reference: COPY 1/63 folio 273

Bickford's Cough Elixir, 1883

 

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Image reference: COPY 1/118 folio 210

Allcock's Porous Plasters, 1895