Remedies posters & prints

Lavender Anonymous

The Remedy Jean-Antoine Watteau

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.131r Lavender, Hellebore, and a relative of the Cucumber family Robinet Testard

Doctor Bokanky, the street herbalist English School

Cinchona (Jesuit's or Peruvian Bark) 1795 Unknown

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.113 Mint and Plantain, or Ribwort Robinet Testard

1990s Female Hand Taking Two Aspirin Tablets From Bottle Anonymous

Advertising poster for Pastilles Poncelet, a cold and bronchitis remedy, 1896. Jules Cheret

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.155v Illustration from the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius c.1470 Robinet Testard

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.156v Flower Robinet Testard

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.145v Illustration from the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius c.1470 Robinet Testard

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.123r Top row: Salt Bush and Anthora. Bottom row: Absinthium and Cardamom Robinet Testard

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.128r Consiligo, Burreed and Strawberry Robinet Testard

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.159v Illustration from the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius c.1470 Robinet Testard

Advertisements at Cambridge Circus, Westminster, London, 1945 Unknown

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.161v Illustration from the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius c.1470 Robinet Testard

I have a secret art to cure/ Each malady which men endure Thomas Rowlandson

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.144r Illustration from the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius c.1470 Robinet Testard

Advertisement for the 'Carbolic Smoke Ball Company', 1892 English School

Advertisement for Genasprin, a proprietary brand of the drug Aspirin. 1919 Unknown

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.122r Euphorbia Lathyris, Beechwort, Mint and Fig Robinet Testard

A Quack in the Right Place John Tenniel

1950s 1960s Woman With A Headache Taking Medicine And With Expression Of Relief From Pain Anonymous

Hypnotism Session with Franz Anton Mesmer 1784 French School

Advertisement for Shaker Family Pills, 1891 Anonymous

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.142r Illustration from the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius c.1470 Robinet Testard

Brandy or Cure Seller, mid to late 17th century Abraham Bosse

Tobias Curing His Father's Blindness, 1630-35 Bernardo Strozzi

Painting a wound with an antiseptic solution, c1890 Unknown

Advertisement for the Carbolic Smoke Ball, a cure for hay fever English School

Marriage a la Mode; plate III Bernard Baron

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.119r Garlic and other plants Robinet Testard

Tobias and the Angel, 2009 Frances Broomfield

Harness Electropathic Battery Belt advert Anonymous

Poppy, camomile and larkspur Anonymous

The Cure for a Headache David Henry Friston