Pharmaceutical Advertisement in the 17th and 18th Centuries

This paper describes the use, types, styles and media of C17-18 ads for medicines and healing products - many of which were first sold by general grocers and booksellers.

Pharmaceutical Advertisement in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Juanita Burnby

                                        The Daily Post                14 July 1736

These are to certify that I, Richard Sandford, waterman, dwelling in Horselydown Street near the Dipping Pond have a son...who for long had been suffering from debility, pains in the stomach and general malaise when he had recollected that his wife’s ...

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