Author: JAMES MORISON Title: The Morisonian Monument, erected in front of the British College of Health.... This Memorial raised by a penny subscription, has been erected A.D. 1856. to James Morison, the Hygeist.
Description: 1856. Advert, 165 x 120 mm. printed on yellow paper. James Morison [1770 - 1840] was a quack doctor, inventor of Morison's pills, a vegetable cure all, mostly composed of the pigment gamboge. The British College of Health, for all its grandiose title was the establishment from where he sold his pills.
Keywords: Ephemera
Price: GBP 50.40 = appr. US$ 71.97 Seller: Michael S. Kemp - Bookseller
- Book number: 44529
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