Pills Collection (page 2)

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

Advertisement for Beechams Pills (engraving)
726770 Advertisement for Beechams Pills (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A catchy catastophe, an advertisement for Beechams Pills)

Taking the Pill, from the Humors of War (engraving)
AQS256899 Taking the Pill, from the Humors of War (engraving) by American School, (19th century); American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts

To digest well (colour litho)
2814765 To digest well (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: To digest well. A cachet of tot for breakfast and one (or two) for lunch

Medicine Jack - pill seller (colour litho)
6031576 Medicine Jack - pill seller (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Medicine Jack - pill seller)

Medicine chest used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, 1854-56 (wood)
FNM321939 Medicine chest used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, 1854-56 (wood) by English School, (19th century); Florence Nightingale Museum, London

Pharmaceutical jar for cynoglossum tablets, c. 1700 (ceramic)
CHT236389 Pharmaceutical jar for cynoglossum tablets, c.1700 (ceramic) by French School, (18th century); Private Collection; eArchives Charmet; French, out of copyright

A Positive Cure for Sick Headache, Carters Little Liver Pills (colour litho)
1079190 A Positive Cure for Sick Headache, Carters Little Liver Pills (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Collection of the New-York Historical Society

Man nursing a hangover (colour litho)
6000015 Man nursing a hangover (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Man nursing a hangover. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Page of Advertisements (engraving)
1044702 Page of Advertisements (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Page of Advertisements)

The Quack, or Charlatan (engraving)
3646779 The Quack, or Charlatan (engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Quack, or Charlatan)

Pill Boxes, made bys & R
BAL3019 Pill Boxes, made bys & R by English School; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Purifies The Blood, Improves The Complexion, Ayers Sarsaparilla (chromolitho)
976388 Purifies The Blood, Improves The Complexion, Ayers Sarsaparilla (chromolitho) by American School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Purifies The Blood)

Bottle of Prescription Pills, 1967 (screen print)
3036131 Bottle of Prescription Pills, 1967 (screen print) by American School, (20th century); (add.info.: Vintage illustration of a bottle of prescription pills; screen print)

Livingstone and Stanley on the Rusizi (litho)
821222 Livingstone and Stanley on the Rusizi (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Livingstone and Stanley on the Rusizi)

Tough Pill to Swallow
Mike Melnotte

eat
Insan Kamil

Inside Out
Olga Mest

Life expectancy
Stephen Clough

Pick Your Poison
Petri Damstén

150, 000 Volidan birth pills under inspection at the British Drug House, Chemical Works, Graham Street, City Road, London. 17th August 1965

Baby Stephanie Higgins (shown on photograph) died on a operating table, her mother blames it on a hormone pregnancy test. 17th February 1980

Mr Arthur Lawson 94 year old chemist seen here at work with his assistants at his dispensary. 1st June 1952

RSPCA Hospital. One of the nurse checks the medicine cabinet. December 1948 O16093-002

The Bachelor, December 28, 1787. Creator: Samuel Alken
The Bachelor, December 28, 1787

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

Trade Card Advertisement Drugs Usa
Mother Comforting Child, Radway's Ready Relief Stops Pain, Trade Card, circa 1900. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG)

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

Life-long medication, conceptual artwork
Life-long medication. Conceptual artwork of young and elderly people with medicine bottles, a syringe, and pills, representing the use of medication throughout a persons lifetime

Advertisement for Leibig Beechams Pills in a box, 1887
Advert for Leibig Beechams Pills in a box. 1887

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

Tablet, pill on a tongue, mouth

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

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