A fever - smear the wrists, 5" - 6" long with treacle - and cover it with brown paper...'Primitive Physic' John Wesley : 'Emprazil' tablets.

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1965
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A fever - smear the wrists, 5" - 6" long with treacle - and cover it with brown paper...'Primitive Physic' John Wesley : 'Emprazil' tablets. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Advertising card issued by Burroughs Wellcome & Co. promoting Emprazil, active against the symptoms of the common cold, containing caffeine. Showing an illustration of a man in his sick bed receiving a remedy involving treacle.

Publication/Creation

1965.

Physical description

1 sheet : colour ; 13 x 21 cm

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