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Medical Manuscripts And Ephemera:

(patent medicine) . JOHN WYETH & BROTHER: BEEF IRON AND WINE; HYPOPHOSPHITES OF LIME AND SODA WITH COD LIVER OIL; COMPRESSED TABLETS OF CHLORATE OF POTASH; PEPTONIC PILLS
Montreal n,d. (c.1880). Small oatavo, 4pp. Flyer, each page advertising a single one of the products. John Wyeth & Brother were located in Philadelphia, but the flyer is for the sale of the products by Perry Davis & Son & Lawrence of the Dominion of Canada. VG. (a37122)
$35.00 Rheem, H. K. M.D. . VALUABLE RECIPES (ORIGINAL VETERINARY AND MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT)
Pennsylvania c.1860. 8vo., 35pp., stringbound wraps. Includes cures for: ringbone and spavin in horses, potion to make horses feel young numble and active, hoof ointment, lice on farm stock, fever, gonorrhea, anti-scorbutic, antidote to strychnine, hysteria, ether dentifrice, cure for sweaney, aloetic pill, inflamatory rheumatism, etc. Ten pages of remedies for horses and 25 pages of human cures and medicines. Top corner of one page chipped off with no loss of text at all. All handwritten and quite legible but writing appears to be in at least two different hands. Good. (a60615)
$250.00