Surgeon John Norton's House, Golden Square, London, (top) and an advertisement for "his assistant & successor" John Hayman. Engraving by Long, 1786.

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[1786]
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40345i
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[London] ([Golden Square]) : [John Hayman], [1786]

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1 print : engraving ; image 10.7 x 8.2 cm

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Prospect of the original house built by the late Surgeon Norton... Lettering continues: "inventor of Maredant's Drops, the south side of Golden Square, London;-now the residence & property of his assistant & successor, Mr. John Hayman; to whom all orders, foreign & domestic, for this celebrated antiscorbutic, are recommended to be addressed. Sold at 5s/5_11s/6_&one Guinea pr. bottle; those at 5s/5 are retailed by the general venders of medicine; the others can only be obtained at Mr. Hayman's. For a test of the purity of this remedy, when bought of any retailer in Town or Country, see that the words "J. Hayman Golden Square" are engraved on the Government label of each bottle; a favour done the proprietor by the Honble. Commrs. of Stamps, which it is Felony to imitate."

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Survey of London, XXXII, pl.134(b)

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Wellcome Collection 40345i

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