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With Alan Milford, 1988
Graham Slater Collection
A wet drug jar with songbird label also inscribed for Syrupus Tussilaginis or syrup of coltsfoot in the Collection of the Royal College of Surgeons is illustrated by Rudolf Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), p.131, pl.67c. Coltsfoot extract was used for treating coughs and other respiratory ailments.