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COCAINE TOOTHACHE DROPS
Instantaneous Cure!
Price 15 Cents.
Prepared by the Lloyd Manufacturing Co.
219 Hudson Ave., Albany, N.Y.
For sale by all Druggists.
(Registered March 1885.)Cocaine is the new anaesthetic now used so extensively throughout Europe and this country by Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists.
This preparation of Toothache Drops contains Cocaine, and its wonderful properties are fully demonstrated by the many recommendations it is daily receiving. Take no other except Cocaine Toothache Drops.
(Via Steve)
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