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[MEDICAL QUACKERY]. Three Advertising Broadsides for Quack Medicines on One Sheet. [Boston: D. Hooton, Printer, for Thomas Hollis, Druggist & Chemist, ca. 1830s-1850s]. One folio sheet. Approximately 315 x 603 mm. Sheet toned, chipped, soiled, with several marginal tears, lower right and left corners chipped with some loss. These broadsides are for “Dr. Ward’s Vegetable Asthmatic Pills” (2 of these) or “Ointment for the Itch…” The Vegetable Asthmatic Pills are lauded as follows: “The virtues of these Pills have been fully proven by years of experience, and all who have used them acknowledge their superior efficacy over every other medicine for pulmonary diseases…” The “Itch” broadside is meant for “Salt Rheum, Ringworms, Pimples on the face and all kind of humours and eruptions on the skin, Scald Head, &c.”