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Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir and Wright's Coal Tar Soap Ad
A historic advertisement promotes Crosby's Balsamic Cough Elixir as an opium free remedy for coughs asthma and throat chest conditions citing Dr Rooke Scarborough and outlining benefits to digestion and constitution. It also markets Wright's Coal Tar Soap as a purifying antiseptic soap for skin and disease prevention with endorsements from medical journals and doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Collis Browne
Francis Conyngham
Mount Charles
Donegal
Davenport
Earl Russell
College of Physicians
Manilla
W. Pace Woop
J. Coutis Browne
Freeman
J. T. Davenport
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
London
Crosby
Rooke, Scarborough
James M. Crosby
Scarborough
Wright
Braddon
Messrs
Wright and Co
Belgravia
W. V. Wright and Co
Southwark