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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(PATENT MEDICINE BROADSIDE.) By Virtue of the King's Patent, Turlington's Balsam of Life, Being a Specific Remedy for the Stone, Gravel, Cholic, Vomiting and Spitting of Blood, and other Inward Weaknesses and Decays. Is prepared and sold by Martha Wray, Niece, and Hilton Wray, Successors of the Patentee<> [caption title]. Woodcut royal arms at top on recto; patent stamp and 2 crude woodcuts depicting bottles of Turlington's Balsam of Life on verso. Broadside, 377x248 mm; paper wrinkled and fragile, some foxing, soiling and stains. [London], (1754)
On the recto is a list of over 100 satisified users and their successfully relieved medical complaints; over 20 more individuals are named on the verso, with a testimonial letter from one, as well as directions for taking the medicine, warnings against fraudulent imitations, and related matters.<
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