The extraordinary life and times of Thomas Parr, who lived to be 152 years of age : with remarks on disease and health, and the means of prolonging life / [T. Roberts & Co.].

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[London] : T. Roberts & Co., [1890?]

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32 pages : illustrations, portrait (on title page) ; 16 cm

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51st ed.

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Includes "important testimonials in favour of Parr's Life Pills" (1878-1886) : p. 20-22 and an advertisement for Spencer's Pulmonic Elixir.
Parr's Life Pills were also supposed to cure dyspepsia, indigestion, gout, rheumatism, dropsy, sleep disorders, costiveness, gravel, stone, urinary affections, nervous affections, liver complaints, jaundice, bilious disorders, coughs, colds, asthma, pimples, skin diseases, ulcers, scrofula, female complaints, ague, consumption etc.

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