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  • Photographed by John Thomas.
Jack Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and his toothache, c. 1875
  • The medicines here includes Seidlitz powder, a laxative made by mixing two powders, red ink, cough pills, rat poison, and tooth ache essence.
Book of practical recipes entitled 'Bleed, Blister and Purge', 1836 [image 4 of 6]