NLM Digital Collections

Constantinople: these celebrated medicines are now in daily use in nearly every respectable household in Turkey and Egypt

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Alternate Title(s):
Holloway's Pills & Ointment
Contributor(s):
Holloway, Thomas, 1800-1883, patent medicine vendor
Publication:
[England?] : [Thomas Holloway?], [between 1880 and 1900?]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nonprescription Drugs
Ointments
Genre(s):
Advertisements
Abstract:
Advertisement for Holloway's Pills & Ointment. Card features a color illustration of a street view of Constantinople where two women are wearing hijabs and a child is speaking to a street vendor. The vendor has a thick black beard, is wearing sunglasses and is sitting on the ground by a box which reads, "Holloway's Pills & Ointment."
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 trade card : 14 x 9 cm
Technique:
chromolithograph, color
NLM Unique ID:
101703298 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101703298