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A database of over 600 advertisements and historical documents dated between 1911 and 1958, relating to the creation and influence of health-related advertising.

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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
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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.

No Extra Cost For Vitamin A	More and More Children Are Victims of Colds and Asian Flu	New light on colds... Atom Tracer Tests prove Vicks VapoRub acts faster, longer than aspirin or any cold tablet	Kill That Cold! Guard Against Influenza
Better Than Whiskey for Colds and Flu	It's Dangerous To Let A Cough Or Cold Run On	Stop that tickle for a nickel	Relief For Raw Throats
New Vicks Double-Buffered Cold Tablets act to relieve colds, sinus pain 53% faster than other leading antihistamine cold tablets	At the first sign of a cough take medicated Pine Bros.	Reduce Fever, Relieve Aches, Pains of Epidemic Colds, Asian Flu	First Real Advance in the Treatment of Colds Since Aspirin
Virus! Virus! "I've got the Virus!"	Break the Cough-Cold Cycle!	Dry Throat breeds Germs of Coughs and Colds	Tests By Physicians Show Quickest Way To End Colds
"One to every Ten- that's my rule"	for quick relief	New! Smith Brothers Presents: Assorted Fruit Cough Drops for Tangy Cough Relief!	Smokers! Now Make Your Next Smoke Taste Better
New Vicks Double-Buffered Cold Tablets act to relieve colds, sinus pain 53% faster than other leading antihistamine cold tablets	Child's Cold May Be Flu	The doctor who discovered Mentho-Kreoamo has not lost a case of pneumonia in 13 years!	For Relief of Sinus Congestion and Colds Misery
Here's the Best Way to Relieve Your Child's Cold's and Asian Flu Miseries	My baby was choking with Croup	Sore Throat? Antibiotic Candettes give immediate soothing relief!	Citroid Bloodstream Agents Treat Any Cold At Any Stage
"Keep your nose and throat clean."	Hay Fever	You! Can Avoid Flu	Will you go to bed sick tomorrow - or take a little tablet and be well -

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