Carbolic acid... / Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson.

  • Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson.
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[1865?]
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Carbolic acid... / Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Leaflet advertising Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson's carbolic acid as a disinfectant effective against "small-pox in sheep and of the glanders in horses ; hydrophobia, or bite of rabid animals ... animal poisons, such as the sting of a bee or the venom of a toad ... [and in large, bold, capital letters] CATTLE PLAGUE." Printed in black ink on white paper.

Publication/Creation

Leeds : Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson, [1865?]

Physical description

1 broadside ; 18 cm

Notes

Probably issued around the time of the cattle plague of 1865.
Quotes the physiological experiments of "the celebrated french physiologist" Jules Lemaire.

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    EPH/8/15

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