Medicine and Madison Avenue: Cough and Cold

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A database of over 600 advertisements and historical documents dated between 1911 and 1958, relating to the creation and influence of health-related advertising.

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Company
- Unknown (11)
- Plough (6)
- Ayer Laboratories (5)
- Luden's (5)

Product
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (5)
- Luden's Menthol Cough Drops (5)
- Allenburys Pastilles (2)
- Broncil (2)

Subject
- Subcategory--Cough and Cold (67)
- Features--Children (22)
- Professional--Doctor (2)
- Professional--Nurse (2)

Year
- 1958 (27)
- 1928 (12)
- 1929 (7)
- 1939 (4)

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Includes products marketed to provide relief from coughs, nasal congestion, sore throat and other symptoms associated with upper respiratory infections and cigarette smoking.

Tests By Physicians Show Quickest Way To End Colds	Talkie Stars End Bad Colds By Quick, Tempting Method	Child Caught Cold; Pneumonia Feared	Doctors as Judges Name Quickest Way to Get Rid of Colds
Hospital-Tested Remedy Ends Colds In Thousands Of Pennsylvania Homes	for quick relief	smoke 10 take 1	OH - for quick relief
Keep "Flu" away with Florida Mentopine Cough Drops	My baby was choking with Croup	"One to every Ten- that's my rule"	One Cigarette Too Many
It's Dangerous To Let A Cough Or Cold Run On	Will you go to bed sick tomorrow - or take a little tablet and be well -	Take No Chances With a Cold	Hay Fever
The doctor who discovered Mentho-Kreoamo has not lost a case of pneumonia in 13 years!	Colds Nasal Catarrh Whooping Cough Hay Fever etc, etc. New Chlorine Discovery Brings Instant Relief	Child's Cold May Be Flu	Broncil Safeguards Children's Health
Better Than Whiskey for Colds and Flu	Guarding The Family Health	Kill That Cold! Guard Against Influenza	You! Can Avoid Flu
Stop that tickle for a nickel	If you want to stop coughing - you can!	Formula AL-14 For Colds. This is the most effective cold remedy in the world.	Romeos
No Extra Cost For Vitamin A	Question, Answer	Relief For Raw Throats	Dry Throat breeds Germs of Coughs and Colds

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