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Jeremy Kemp
Oct 26, 20208 min read
Bottles 4. John Lynch, Duke Street, St James's, circa 1812 - 1829.
Another 'medicine' from an unlikely source: this time a West Indian slave who gained his freedom in late Georgian England.
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Oct 25, 20208 min read
Bottles 3: Cabburn (Cabburn’s Anti-Doloric Oil, Cabburn’s Balsam of Herbs), 1840 - circa 1920s.
Cabburn's Anti-Doloric Oil was invented in 1840 by a publican and Wine & Spirit merchant, John Francis Bricknell Cabburn.
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Oct 3, 20209 min read
Bottles 2. Jesuit's Drops, 1755 - circa 1860s.
On 29th October 1755 a patent was granted to Robert Walker of London for "A new invented medicine, called Jesuit's drops ...".
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Jeremy Kemp
Sep 30, 202012 min read
Bottles 1. Turlington's Balsam of Life: the 1754 design.
"BY THE KING's ROYALL PATENT GRANTED TO ROBt TURLINGTON FOR HIS INVENTED BALSAM OF LIFE. LONDON. JANy 26 1754." Turlington used at least thr
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Aug 18, 20205 min read
Stories 1, part I. She voided a frog, a newt and two worms.
On a Tuesday night in May a "GANG of dangerous IMPOSTERS" were apprehended, "some of them with quack medicines".
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