Certificates, of the singular efficacy of those justly esteemed and highly approved medicines : prepared and sold, wholesale by W.T. Conway, chemist--no. 1, Bumstead-Place, Common-Street--Boston. And retailed by his appointment, by most druggists and booksellers of respectability, and also by most postmasters, throughout the U. States. : To prevent imposition the outside printed wrapper is signed by the sole proprietor, "W.T. Conway." As you value health, observe this! : Take care of this pamphlet--it may be of service on some future occasion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, W. T. (Wallace T.), 1773?-1822.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 43724.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patent medicines--Massachusetts.

Patent medicines.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Patent medicines.

Physical Description:

12 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1819?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Dated [1818?] in Shaw & Shoemaker. Another issue (Shoemaker 863), dated [1820?], has "Sold by special appointment, by Mr. Samuel Pilsberry [i.e., Pilsbury], successor to Cyrus Holbrook, druggist, at the Sign of St. Luke's Head, no. 56, Hanover Street" inserted between "observe this" and "Take care of this pamphlet" on the title page.

Conway is listed at 1 Bumstead-Place in Boston directories for 1818 through 1820. Cyrus Holbrook died on Oct. 6, 1819, and Samuel Pilsbury is listed at 56 Hanover St. in the Boston directory for 1820. The latest dated certificate is that of Apr. 14, 1817.

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