Celerina: For Medical Men Only.
[London: Rio Chemical Co., circa 1900].
Booklet, stapled in wrappers (10.5 x 13.5 cm.), 31, [1] pages. Text in black and with red borders throughout. An attractively designed booklet advertising the Rio Chemical Company's Celerina, a "nerve tonic, stimulant and spasmodic" containing "celery, coca, kola, viburnum and aromatics. "It is recommended in cases of "impotency, spermatorrhea, loss of nerve power, nervous headache, neuralgia, paralysis, dysmenorrhea, hysteria, opium habit, inebriety, prostatitis, dyspepsia, and all languid and debilitated conditions of the system." With slight oxidation to the staples, and some light wear to the wrapper's crease; near fine. [OCLC locates no copies of this, but one each of three other Celerina promotional publications].
Price: $60.00